Whittlin’: Guns Carved Into Old School Desks
Ben Turnbull is fascinated by the global dominance of American culture, and his work’s unsettling effects result from re-presenting the toys of our innocent youth in symbolic forms that reveal the shocking truths about war, death and guns in the world’s most powerful country. Turnbull is a passionate critic of the contemporary American political system, and explains why toys are central to his work: ‘Force fed on violence, abused by a controlling superpower and blackmailed through patriotism, the public are ultimately as disposable as the toys they once played with.’
wow. awesome school desk is awesome.





