"Little Green War"

Swords Into Plowshares, which I co-created, is mentioned in a fun article on Guerrilla Gardening in the latest issue of Richmond's Style Weekly:

Comrade Noah Scalin is one of the creators of “Swords Into Plowshares,” a show of clay guns that traveled around Richmond in 2004, each gun representing a homicide victim in the city that year. Scalin says he and his partner, Comrade Chris Humes, were inspired by guerrilla gardening and “seed bombs” when they conceived their project. In guerrilla gardening they saw a way to respond to people’s frustration with the powers that be, a form of subversion neither violent nor damaging that connects with the community, Scalin says, “transforming the neighborhood in a positive way.”

Read the entire article here.