Ms Meester says she made the tiny replica pistol with a piece of skin - 20 centimetres long and four centimetres high - surgically removed from her abdomen. The puckered skin was stretched and sewn over a plastic and fibre pistol mould.

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But the pistol is the first time she has used human skin in her work.

"It felt like something between chicken skin and pig skin," she said.

"If everyone made a pistol from their own skin, I think they would think twice about using a gun. I think there would be less violence in the world."