Over the years, I have often returned to the theme of ‘carrying things’ and in particular, the ‘carrying’ of a lamb. In this work, the figure is carrying a lamb or young deer upon what appears to have been a weapon, that is now a platform to support this creature. How much I wish that we should be guardians and protectors of both domesticated (lamb) and wild (deer) creatures … as opposed to hunting and hurting them.

As art-postcards, the backs of these cards carry the message from Shane Claiborne about ‘peace-making’.

Along with Michael Martin; founder and executive director of RAWtools Inc. RAWtools turns guns into garden tools (and other lovely things), resourcing communities with nonviolent confrontation skills in an effort to turn stories of violence into stories of creation.

Shane Claiborne and Michael Martin are the authors of “Beating Guns: Hope for People Who Are Weary of Violence”

May we all increasingly be bearers of all that brings peace and restoration, rather than that which harms and hurts.

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