05-25-2004, 06:27 PM
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Quote:Dutch artist Joanneke Meester holds up a replica pistol made out of an eight-inch piece of her skin in her studio in Amsterdam, April 22, 2004. Joanneke made the pistol from a flap of her own skin which was surgically removed from her abdomen. The puckered skin was stretched and sewn with nylon over a plastic and fiber mold. Meester made the piece to highlight her concerns about how quickly people resorted to violence in a society regularly exposed to violence in the television age. (Jerry Lampen/Reuters)

