This artist is melting down bullet casings and parts of old guns and turning them into bells. Here’s how — and why.
"I melt down weapons and transform them into musical installations and musical instruments," she explains.Bells captivate Mercedes as a medium, she says, because they carry spiritual significance across cultures. Their sound purifies space. At a time when mass shootings regularly rock the country, bells are also tools of mourning.
The death knells of her instruments first memorialized the victims of"Because I'm gay, I'm Latina, and I easily could have been there," she says. But Mercedes points out that most of us could be anywhere a mass shooting happens — a grocery store, a concert hall, a workplace, a school.
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