Cathedral- Knife Angel

At one of Liverpool's Cathedral's I recently saw a sculpture called the Knife Angel and this sculpture addresses the issues of knife crime across the country. 

The Knife Angle is made from 100,000 confiscated knives that have been used to commit crimes, these have all been put together to make a gigantic figure of an angel. When walking up to the angel the first thing that hit me where its hands and face as its displayed outside the church with a light at its feet, highlighting these features. The angels face looks so disappointed and filled with sadness and its hands are held out, almost offering hope. By simply being next to this sculpture it really did hit me right in the heart. Observing all the different knives that where used to make this sculpture, some are rusted and used and the difference of knives as well, for instance in the wings there are huge machetes and cleavers, which truly brought a shiver to my spine. The knife Angel is a sculpture definitely worth seeing with an amazing message and being brought up in Liverpool, a city where the knife crime rate has always been issue, its a sculpture that I relate too and I hope that this could have a positive impact on the crime rate. 

Further in the sense of technique and the making of the sculpture, I am really intrigued by the use of welding found objects that could have a deep meaning's like these knives or simply old objects to make something new and this could be a technique that I would like to look at experimenting with in my own practice. 

Overall an amazing piece and if your like me, definitely take tissues.