Sculptor spends 2 years to build knife angel with 1,00,000 weapons, UK government rejects

But besides the impressive statistics, it’s also a monument built out of morbid necessity to remember the victims fallen to the increasing knife violence in the UK and to finally acknowledge that there is a real problem. 

The angel’s creator, Alfie Radley, has spent two years designing and building the sculpture which features police donated knives that were actually used in violent crimes all over England and Wales, some of which even have the names of the victims engraved onto the blades. 

Besides cleaning every knife of ‘biological material,’ Alfie also “had to blunt every single knife to make sure they’re not sharp anymore, and can’t create any damage,” Radley told. Radley is currently running a petition to put the sculpture on Trafalgar square in London to raise awareness of the issue.