david palmer creates portraits out of bullet shell casings
artist david palmer employs a bit of an unconventional medium as the canvas for his paintings – bullet casings. his piece ‘the face of liberty’ employs more than 6,300 of the shells which have been strategically arranged to lay the foundation for his painting of the famous new york statue.
profile of ‘the face of liberty’ showing the arrangement of the bullets
‘the face of liberty’
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