Rather than swords into plowshares, Colombian artist Doris Salcedo is pounding guns into floor tiles.
Salcedo, one of the country's best-known sculptors, is building a monument to mark the end of Colombia's half-century-old guerrilla war, using the scrap metal from leftover rebel machine guns, automatic rifles and pistols. These and other weapons were used to kill more than 220,000 people in a war that began in 1964 and ended through a peace treaty signed in 2016.
"The fact that these guns have been destroyed means that many, many lives have been saved," Salcedo tells NPR in an interview. Leer más...