Absolute Weapons

2013

Absolute Weapons are weapons that cannot be held and thus and so become nonfunctional. The collection consist of Vietnamese Kiem, Roman Gladius, Russian Cavalry Sabers, Samurai Katana, Nepalese Kukri and many others. With one trick — the handles are removed and replaced with symmetrically geminated blades, suggesting that those “creations” destroy the idea of the target, turning the blades into the “wings”. These sculptures become Rorschach Test of a warrior rather than his killing device.