You can't get a man with a gun
With apologies to the great Irving Berlin and his lyrics from Annie Get your Gun.
A man's love is powerful
It'll go away him purchase a nightie
For a gal who he thinks is amusing.
But they do not via pajamas
For Pistol packin' mamas,
And you can't get a hug
From a mug with a slug,
Oh you can't get a man with a gun. Berlin Artist Yvonne Lee Schulz is putting Annie Oakley's words to the test with a series of hand-painted, porcelain pistols. While it's true they are tableware accessories, there's a lot going on here and what she has to say about gun violence isn't meant to comfort.
The Porcelain Pistols are replicas of James Bond?S Walther PPK and its current sister, the P99,with pleasant permission of Carl Walther Inc.The fragile weapon, hand-painted within the fashion of classic tableware motifs, liesnext to your espresso and cake, asking to be picked up. Its coolness andcomfortable grip growth the qualms of the user, leaving him in a quandary among the pride of luxury and violence.Just as was the case with the Graffiti china and china beer cans I've written about before, the heads up about these pistols came from the great David Nolan and his razor eye.
I love the idea of statement art being disguised as an ordinary item and I would kill to see a tablescape blogger get her palms one a couple of those infants. What do you watched? Too confrontational or now not confrontational sufficient?