| Guns Seized from Mexico's Gang War Turned into Musical Instruments The Province | |
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Pedro Reyes makes musical instruments out of hundreds of guns (AfpNewz)
One day last year sculptor Pedro Reyes got a phone call from “someone who works in government.”
The caller asked if Reyes would be interested in making art from guns seized in and around Ciudad Juarez, a city of 1.3 million in northern Mexico where the murder rate had gone through the roof.
“Normally, they bury or destroy them,” said Reyes, who has given firearms a new lease on life — as musical instruments.
For two projects — one titled Imagine, the other Disarm — Reyes was able to choose his material from about 6,700 guns that were turned in or seized by the army and police in Ciudad Juarez.
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