Big Gun

Walked around Jupiter Artland with our visitors today in pouring rain. 

One of the most most striking exhibits was Cornelia Parker's "Landscape with Gun and Tree" made from cast iron and corten steel..

"In Gainsbosrough's Mr and Mr Andrews a couple are posed under a tree, Mr Andrews carries a shotgun under his arm and his wife sits with her (unfinished) hands in her lap. In "Landscape with Gun and Tree" a gun has been left leaning against a tree, possibly loaded."

My five year old visitor is fascianted by the size of the gun and wants to know if it works. We tell him no then he says :"why not?"