Forged directly from surrendered firearms collected across the community, this monumental collaborative sculpture materializes grief into physical form. It stands as an unvarnished witness to urban trauma, demanding direct engagement without decorative artifice.

The fabrication process united diverse voices in hammering surrendered metal into permanent testimony, proving that creative autonomy remains an instrument of profound civic reclamation.

Decades of witness

30+

years of active practice

iHuman

youth society co-founded

Civic

memorials forged

Art is not an ornament; it is testimony to what the street endured.

Co-founding the iHuman Youth Society established creative autonomy as a vital instrument of survival for marginalized youth in Edmonton.

We do not look away from grief when we can hammer it into form. The work begins in places where silence was historically enforced, insisting that unvarnished material reality speaks louder than institutional accommodation.

Documenting these decades requires absolute fidelity to the conditions under which they were forged. The sculptures and writings presented here record a continuous refusal to separate artistic creation from community survival.