Knife Angel in Carlisle- The sculpture, made from over 100,000 seized blades, was specifically created to highlight the negative effects of violent behaviour whilst solidifying our critical need for social change.

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  4. How can we encourage knife use by making knives look cool? Let’s build a scary looking angel out of them, like something from a horror movie or a heavy metal album cover. All the kids’ll be wanting them in no time!

  5. 6 stabbings in London alone yesterday, and social services estimate double the daily reported number because many superficial wounds or misses are hidden from the coppers. They also estimate for each actual stabbing, there’s 10-20 times the number again in threats and/or drawn knives + robberies at knife point. It’s all gone tits up.

  8. Great piece of social art.

    Why is it in Carlisle though? Is that a centre of knife violence or something?

  12. It’s a great project but does it target those carrying knives? The guys I went to school with who did were also not the type to care about art, nor the type to really understand the consequences of their actions. They would look at something like this for a second, make a crude joke and go on their way. I hope it at least gets discussed in the workshops that go into schools, where it may have a better impact than on the street alone.

  14. Is that really the best design they could have come up with? It looks so “solid”, like it’s just one giant block with some faint humanoid characteristics. There’s no form or sense of movement. I can envision a thousand ways to make a better looking “angel of blades”.

    Cool concept. Bad implimentation.

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