The De Young has a sculpture done Al Farrow – The Spine and Tooth of Santo Guerro. He uses gun parts, bullets, human bone amongst other things to create his reliquaries. It is an amazing sculpture – violence, death, destruction are it's foundations even though these things violate the core principals of what the Christian church is suppose to imbue (he has done others of mosques and synagogues with the same effect).
By making something so beautiful (if viewed from afar) and something so cold and echoing of violence (up close) this particular reliquary manages to convey the hypocrisy of religion – it is hard to argue against the interconnect between religion and war/violence/intolerance. The hanging sculpture behind also was a nice commentary on religion and violence – it is created from the charred remains of a Montgomery church that was turned into a suspended square.
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