“Walt Creel is a revolutionary artist – or perhaps an artistic revolutionary,” University of Alabama’s Reporter Online quips. “Instead of relying on paint or ink, he uses firearms to create images. His dot-matrix designs, composed of bullet holes in six-foot panels of painted metal, have gone viral on the Internet and attracted attention from Chinese and European media and prestigious American art journals. At UAB, however, the Web wonder is better known as an information-technology specialist for audio and video support.” Creel calls the series “De-weaponizing the gun.” While Creel uses a virtually recoilless Ruger .22 as part of his process, it’s clear that he suffers for his art . . .
