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A cake stand sits with concrete on it. A disassembled revolver pressed and immobilized in the concrete.

My Heritage is Violence

Charlie Reynolds

Smith and Wesson .38 Double Action Revolver, concrete, cake stand, 2022

Graduate

This piece talks about conflict of familial ties and meditates on the gifts our family give us. It was a way to take power away from the gun and my father without hiding or running away from the truth of it. Rather, let it be displayed like a grand turkey dinner.