Peace Angels Project artist and founder Lin Evola accepted a donation of destroyed weapons from the San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) for use in creating the metal Peace Monument to be located in the San Francisco Bay Area and Silicon Valley.
“These weapons from the SFPD are the first weapons from law enforcement received toward the one million weapons for the production of the 64 foot monument for the Silicon Valley/San Francisco Bay Area,” said Lin Evola.
The weapons include handguns, rifles and automatic weapons collected in criminal investigations, probation seizures and guns turned in by citizens at collection events. Of the weapons parts given a certain amount consisted of wood. Since only metal will be used for production of the monuments and subsequent art, the wood will be recycled in Marin, California.
“Wooden grips and rifle stocks went into a green compost bin and will be turned into mulch to grow crops and gardens in Marin County,” said environmentalist Alan Edmondson.
“The Peace Angels Project is reducing the number of firearms in our world by making a national call for the voluntary and permanent destruction of weapons. This call to action is actuated by transforming decommissioned weapons into landmark symbols of peace,” added Lin Evola.
Armaments which once were meant to destroy life are transformed into Peace Angel sculptures of various sizes, including Peace Angel monuments that will rise to heights of more than six stories. The impact of Evola’s work is profound, as is evidenced by her 13-foot Renaissance Peace Angel sculpture which is in the permanent collection of the National September 11 Memorial Museum and was unveiled in the autumn of 2018.
The San Francisco Bay Area is known as a cradle of technology and innovation, with venture capitalism creating a new future for the entire world. In designing the Peace Angel Monument for the San Francisco Bay Area the globe will be its central element. The monument will have a transparent globe as its centerpiece. The transparent globe will move with the evolution of the earth powered by solar energy. The steel will be comprised of many weapons including: nuclear, street weapons, land mines and weapons of war. E-waste and carbon leeched from the atmosphere will also be included in the production of the monument to represent global warming.
The Universal Peace Sign is central and will be incorporated within the globe. The core of the transparent globe, the Peace Sign, is symbolic of the idea that in order to live on this earth we must get along with each other and strive for peace, not war.
“The monument symbolizes our human potential to problem solve and increase our capacity to respect each other and listen to one another. We must communicate with each other to foster understanding and world peace,” added Lin Evola,
The Peace Angels Project would like to thank the San Francisco Art Institute the official non profit umbrella to the Project.
Contributions to the Peace Angels Project can be made on the website: www.peaceangels.com
About the Peace Angels Project
In 1992, Lin Evola founded the Peace Angels Project to address the epidemic of violence by reminding us of the responsibilities we all share to create a better world. As an American contemporary Artist, Evola created the Peace Angels Project as a conceptual work of art to engage thought that is meant to stir us - to awaken us to rise up and build a life affirming legacy of Peace in our time. The concept that develops into Peace Angel monuments forwards a legacy of peace to our children and future generations.
