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[CHIMING SOUNDS]

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[REYES, IN SPANISH] Let's try it with revolvers,
but it would be better with pistols.

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[REYES] This is one of the many workshops
that I've been doing

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where we turn weapons into instruments.

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[MAN, IN SPANISH] Look, the problem is that it's bent.

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The notion of sculpture is having

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the understanding that you can take that material

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and give it shape.

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Something that was designed to kill--

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how will it produce sounds for music?

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[CHIMING SOUNDS]

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I often find myself knocking at the doors

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of different government agencies trying to
persuade them

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to embrace this initiative as something

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that could happen on a national scale,

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because we need to get rid of all the weapons

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that are entering our territory from the United States.

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Doing these workshops is an attempt to transform

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not only the material metal, but also

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to try to create a psychological transformation--

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and, hopefully, a social transformation.

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[Pedro Reyes in "Mexico City"]
[September 16, 2016 on PBS]