Smoke billowed from behind a yellow protective screen, and the sharp sounds and smells of a circular saw piercing metal followed.
Behind the curtain stood a Centaurus High School student and local metal artists who were preparing for a collaborative community art project resulting in the construction of a metal sculpture made out of a unique building material: guns.
Seniors at Centaurus High School in Lafayette decided to research gun violence for their political action class not long after the December 2012 Sandy Hook shootings.