Bayonet
Bayonet
16 x 48 inches, oil on canvas 2007
This attaches to the barrel of the Steyr
assault rifle. A vicious looking thing really. I asked a soldier why it had a
hole in the blade. He said it was used as a spanner on the rifle. I had read
somewhere that the Geneva Convention banned bayonets with holes in them. The
reason being that a piercing wound from a blade with holes leaves air pockets
inside the wound. Very nasty apparently. I put this to the soldier and he said,
“Well, war is cruel.”
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