Empty Promises

comically known as "Why can't I hold all these promises?"

My final project for this semester's sculpture class, the assignment was to make something with rubber mold and welded components that falls under the postmodernist umbrella.

This work is a comment on uselessness. Specifically, the bullets represent empty promises. What are you supposed to do with all these empty promises? I've put them in a basket, which renders the basket useless, too. What's the point of a basket if it's only holding useless objects?

My hope in choosing to use bullets is to evoke a response in the viewer. Even if you don't get the concept of empty promises, hopefully seeing the bullets brings out some kind of response (an opinion on hunting, war, mass production, etc).