Musical Weapons

Pedro Reyes, an amazing artist from Mexico City, is transforming confiscated weapons into beautiful, functional musical instruments.

Within his project, called 'Imagine', 6,700 weapons are turned into 50 musical instruments.

Watch below a video that shows the group performing using the makeshift musical equipment.

"It's important to consider that many lives were taken with these weapons; as if a sort of exorcism was taking place the music expelled the demons they held, as well as being a requiem for lives lost,” Reyes said.

'Palas por Pistolas' was another project by Reyes. In 2008, he asked for gun donations in West Mexico. He received 1527 weapons which were melted and turned into 1527 shovels. 1527 trees were then planted with the shovels.