Cannonballs
Cannonball Skins on pedestals and brass bullet casings on floor
2017
Cannonball Skins are casts of the weapons fired from Ottoman galley ships during the 1480 Ottoman Invasion of Italy.
Gallery view
2017
Atlantic Works Gallery, Easy Boston
View 3D gallery tour here.
Guest artists included Christine Coënon, French sound artist and filmmaker living in Paris; and Boston-based artist John Wilkinson, who fabricated a plexiglass mobile, “The Blue Bolt.”
When I lifted the paper replica from the cannonball, I couldn’t help but think about the Greek creation myth, about how the world and its panoply of gods, humans, and hubris came into existence through an act of violence.