Subverting Objects of Violence, an art installation "that focuses solely on objects that either subverts a violent one by playing with its perceived function or vice versa." A sculpted ceramic grenade (in an attractive gift box), a looping strand of decorative barbed wire, a post-apocalyptic Hello Kitty 'bot, and more.
(Hello Kitty always struck me as fundamentally creepy, though, so the rearticulation of it in a bombed-out virtual cityscape makes it symbolically safer.)
As Gizomodo commented, the only flaw with the site is that it includes only a small number of images of the objects, with very short commentary.
[via Gizmodo]
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