155mm Artillery Shell•
155mm Artillery Shell
40 x 20 inches, oil on canvas, 2007
This artillery shell has a range of 25
kilometres. It is objects such as these that have killed the most on the 20th
century battlefield. Fired from a howitzer by pressing a button. I was rather
fascinated to discover that the shell case, the brass bit, is reused. And that
the number of charges placed into it defines the range. These are colour coded
cotton bags with the highest charge being red of course.