A while back, I purchased this extremely heavy brass/copper piece which was supposedly part of the periscope optics in a WW1 Tank:

From a WW1 Tank (assumed)

As with the bomb sight, I plan on mounting it vertically on the wall so you can look down into it.  Unfortunately, it only has one lens, so I’ll need to add some lenses to focus the image.

The image I am planning on using will be that of “Tank Man”, the unknown insanely brave protester of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.  Instead of using the famous photo:

Published by The Associated Press, originally photographed by Jeff Widener

I will try and produce an image of what he would look like from the front.  In other words, the viewer would be in the place of the tank gunner.  Think about what that must have been like.  I don’t think I’ll bother with any text.

For the mount, I’m thinking of using the CNC plasma cutter to cut out Chinese characters with one or more Confucius quotes in several vertical lines wrapping around.  Forming into a tube might be difficult, but I’ll try.  I bought a Confucius quote book a while back – quite the brilliant moral philosopher, he was.