I found this on Tumblr when I was trying to decide on a topic for today. It was posted by a user Perfect Within Imperfection.. It's very similar to a picture I have seen by Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin of a Watermelon. But I would dare suggest most of you out there are at a loss as how I have made this distinction.
The Grenade is VERY powerful. We look at it and understand what the connotations are. We have been brought up understanding that when we see it, it can bring pain and death.
But what of the Watermelon and why is it just as scary and thought provoking.
This Watermelon is a recreation of a Roadside Bomb. Broomberg and Chanarin did a whole series of photos on the the subject. They were shocking and disgusting images, but so intriguing you could not understand the wonder and technical dexterity that went into making some of them.
So now we know what they both are, which image is scarier??
The Hand Grenade that we know will hurt. Or the innocuous object that will bring death if triggered..
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