Thomas Little is a North Carolina-based artist and inkmaker whose practice involves dissolving the ferrous parts of handguns and automatic rifles to make iron-based inks. On their subject matter alone, the paintings of water towers, street signs and brick facades are a subtle but harrowing visual record of violence in the U.S., portrayed through a sense of absence and loss.
As an illustrator and animator, Little often felt as if the aim of his practice evaded him. But turning guns into ink has given him a sense of purpose. “Ink is a kind of necromancy. The dead speak to us through ink… through documents from hundreds of years ago,” Little said. “There’s a little bit of poetic justice to use the instruments that silence people, that robbed voice from the world to instead preserve a voice for the future.”Little’s inkmaking remains a one-person show in Sampson County, a rural agricultural part of the state. Recently, he has dissolved a Beretta .45 revolver, Smith & Wesson .38 revolver and an AR-15.
Kwan says she has anxiety over gun violence in the U.S., particularly after the birth of her child. With her practice based in calligraphic brushstrokes, she became interested in trying Little's inks. Little credits the artists he works with for helping him understand the importance of his inkmaking, as he said he often gets wrapped up in the day-to-day of the process without as much time for reflection.
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