Gun control? Softly does it: an artist's response to violence – in pictures

New York-based artist Natalie Baxter addresses America’s polarising discussions of masculinity, violence and gun ownership through her series Warm Gun, a collection of quilts and fabrics shaped into automatic weaponry. “I’m taking a complicated, emotional debate and wrapping it up in a plush wrapper, making it easier to unpack,” she says. “Sewing emasculates these objects of destruction, turning them into droopy, impotent soft sculptures.” The work seems parti