[CHIMING SOUNDS]
[REYES, IN SPANISH] Let's try it with revolvers, but it would be better with pistols.
[REYES] This is one of the many workshops that I've been doing
where we turn weapons into instruments.
[MAN, IN SPANISH] Look, the problem is that it's bent.
The notion of sculpture is having
the understanding that you can take that material
and give it shape.
Something that was designed to kill--
how will it produce sounds for music?
[CHIMING SOUNDS]
I often find myself knocking at the doors
of different government agencies trying to persuade them
to embrace this initiative as something
that could happen on a national scale,
because we need to get rid of all the weapons
that are entering our territory from the United States.
Doing these workshops is an attempt to transform
not only the material metal, but also
to try to create a psychological transformation--
and, hopefully, a social transformation.
[Pedro Reyes in "Mexico City"] [September 16, 2016 on PBS]