BENGHAZI (REUTERS).- Free for the first time to make art about whatever he wants, veteran Libyan sculptor Ali al-Wakwak chose gnarled mortar shrapnel, bullet casings and shattered gun barrels as his medium. “I saw the ammunition around, and so I thought I’d make something nice with it,” the stout, bearded 63-year-old said as he sat sipping espresso outside a new art museum displaying his works near Benghazi’s port. As with many of the exhibits at the museum, housed in a monarchy-era palace, Wakwak’s motifs revolve mostly around war, testament to the scars the six-month old uprising against Muammar Gaddafi has left on the North African country. But the fact the new museum exists at all is a triumph for local artists, and many see it as evidence of the creative and open future they hope awaits their country despite its fractious politics,