Last week in San Francisco we went to the gorgeous new deYoung Museum, designed by architects Herzog & de Meuron and Fong & Chan, and saw an amazing—and very powerful—exhibit called In the Name of God: War, Religion and the Reliquaries of Al Farrow.

In this work, Farrow appropriates and reinterprets the iconography of Jewish,
Christian, and Islamic religious institutions. The Spine and Tooth of Santo Guerro (2007), which is pictured to the left, is an elaborate construction, which looks like a scale model of a European Gothic cathedral.

A closer look reveals
that the entire structure is fabricated from deconstructed gun
components, as well as bullets and steel shot.

I heard from Al Farrow today. He thanked me for mentioning him on the blog. It turns out that he was born and raised in Brooklyn and left 20 years ago for California, where he exhibits widely.