From Armory to Artifact

From Armory to Artifact (from the series Inanimate Subjects)

Or you could say, “from armory to art”. This is a Russian T-34 tank – one of the tens of thousands of tanks that drove Hitler’s Panzer divisions back from Moscow, across the Ukraine and ultimately to Berlin. Despite the fact that the German Panzers had better armour, the T-34 was faster and more maneuverable. At the height of the war, the Russians were building 500 of these tanks per week. But now they are yesterday’s weapons.

This particular one mutated into a monument that guards the Stalin Museum in Moscow, displaying its cold beauty to visitors from across the globe. In this image, it appears to be coming at you from the crest of a hill.