Throne II.

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Do not think the artist Cristóvão Canhavato alone in the creation of objet d'art from discarded war munitions.

"objet d'art: n. An object of artistic merit. n. A work of art with some artistic merit. n. An artwork exhibited for the purposes of decoration or the reflection of social status."

Think also the artist Gonçalo Mabunda.

"FURNITURE MADE FROM DISCARDED WEAPONRY AS AN ARTISTIC ENDEAVOR"

"Goncalo Mabunda is a mixed-media sculptor [Born in Maputo, Mozambique, in 1975. He lives and works in Maputo] whose work examines the collective memory of a nation recovering from decades of conflict. He expertly fashions masks, thrones, and figures from the material wreckage of war— dispossessed AK-47s, pistols, and military accessories— to form the armature of his distinctive creations."

I hope those mortar rounds are defused!! See additional Gonçalo Mabunda art work, military munitions turned into "armed chairs" and such.

"Just two years after Mozambique won its independence from Portugal in 1975 following a ten-year insurrection, the new nation embarked on a sixteen-year-long civil war. When that war ended in 1992, several aid organizations launched an initiative to collect and deactivate the weapons that remained scattered throughout the countryside. Mabunda often sources his materials from these collections, deconstructing and fusing their parts into new forms that are influenced by recognizable motifs from traditional African art."

Sadly war, insurrection, terrorism has returned to Mozambique. See prior relevant and recent blog entries:

https://militaryanalysis.blogspot.com/2020/11/dag.html

https://militaryanalysis.blogspot.com/2020/10/machababos.html

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