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2/18/2021 8:42 pm  #1


February 18th, 2021: Knife Angel

This 27' sculpture was created from knives seized by police and turned in during a knife amnesty.



I love it.

AKA  National Monument Against Violence & Aggression

Wikipedia article
Creators' article
 


The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity  Amelia Earhart
 

2/18/2021 8:47 pm  #2


Re: February 18th, 2021: Knife Angel

I learned about it because it was mentioned in a video I was watching, and the relatives of victims of knife crime were engraving messages on some of the blades.  Many knives apparently turned up at the ironworks centre where the sculpture was created in evidence tubes with bodily fluids still on them.


The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity  Amelia Earhart
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2/18/2021 8:52 pm  #3


Re: February 18th, 2021: Knife Angel

oof.


If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis Brandeis
 

2/20/2021 9:47 am  #4


Re: February 18th, 2021: Knife Angel

Don't blink.


Hey! That's me up there!
 

2/20/2021 12:24 pm  #5


Re: February 18th, 2021: Knife Angel

monster wrote:

... in evidence tubes with bodily fluids still on them.

Soooo...

In England ya gotta be eighteen to buy a butter knife, but people have blood-stained knives apparently from criminal cases in evidence tubes???

England be strange.
 

 

2/20/2021 1:21 pm  #6


Re: February 18th, 2021: Knife Angel

Gravdigr wrote:

monster wrote:

... in evidence tubes with bodily fluids still on them.

Soooo...

In England ya gotta be eighteen to buy a butter knife, but people have blood-stained knives apparently from criminal cases in evidence tubes???

England be strange.
 

no, those were the ones from the police haul
 


The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity  Amelia Earhart
     Thread Starter
 

2/20/2021 1:31 pm  #7


Re: February 18th, 2021: Knife Angel

footfootfoot wrote:

Don't blink.

blast from the past. well played
 


If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis Brandeis
 

2/20/2021 3:56 pm  #8


Re: February 18th, 2021: Knife Angel

griff wrote:

footfootfoot wrote:

Don't blink.

blast from the past. well played
 

I don't get it. 

will you please unpack this for those of us in the back of the class?


Be Just And Fear Not
 

2/20/2021 5:59 pm  #9


Re: February 18th, 2021: Knife Angel




Here you go.


If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis Brandeis
 

2/20/2021 9:03 pm  #10


Re: February 18th, 2021: Knife Angel

thank you


Be Just And Fear Not
 

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