Pop Art: Andy Warhol inspired

America needs more gun control 

"The repetition of the sign may evacuate it of meaning, making it background wallpaper and part of the vernacular. at this point it achieves the very ambition of the global advertiser, to make the sign of the product so familiar that it becomes part of the interior language. repetition embeds the received meaning into everyday use. the repeat sign is part of everyday consciousness" (Finkelstein)
 
"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) 
“People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly.” (Andy Warhol)

America has a huge problem related with gun control, and that is why I decided to do this image. I think that many people are trying to see guns as a neccesary object. But, for me, it is just another object of consumerism that leads to wars, mass shootings, more suicides, intolerance violence. The reason I choose that quote from the book is because some people try to make guns look normal, as something that is (or needs to be) part of us. 

The following are some facts about gun (mis)use in the United States, and a comparision with other countries like Japan. 

"Americans make up about 4.4 percent of the global population but own 42 percent of the world’s guns. From 1966 to 2012, 31 percent of the gunmen in mass shootings worldwide were American, according to a 2015 study by Adam Lankford, a professor at the University of Alabama.
"In 2013, American gun-related deaths included 21,175 suicides, 11,208 homicides and 505 deaths caused by an accidental discharge. That same year in Japan, a country with one-third America’s population, guns were involved in only 13 deaths. This means an American is about 300 times more likely to die by gun homicide or accident than a Japanese person." ( Fisher and Josh Keller )

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/11/07/world/americas/mass-shootings-us-international.html?referer=https%3A%2F%2Fapple.news%2FAOX9I5Q-nQ8uBJ-6oiHqgQw%3Fcampaign_id%3DA100