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Painting With Bullets - Military Folk Art by Matthew Stromberg (VIDEO)
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If you are wandering around Savannah Georgia’s College of Art and Design and see a gunman, call your art broker. Matthew Stromberg shoots aluminum box panels with sub machine guns. He convinced the higher ups to let him use “energetic materials” as a media- college speak for high explosives. Stromberg blasts away at some fancy metal with an SWD M11/9 and then hangs the stuff and calls it art. He also creates art with Thermite, ANFO, C4, and solid rocket fuel. Yeah, it’s earth shattering and sure to be very popular with gun toting, gun loving America.
"I think it stems from a long-term interest in energetic materials," Stromberg says. "Recently, with the birth of my daughter, my wife and I were thinking about what we are going to teach her. I want to encourage her to seek out things in life she finds interesting.
"I've always liked energetic materials," he says. "I think the risk-taking is a big part of it, which is probably a key element of being an artist."
Stromberg first began experimenting with energetic materials last year. It's not something for the faint of heart. "I would say it's very dangerous," Stromberg says.
(connectsavannah)
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