A Skyline of Staples

Posted on | May 4, 2010 | No Comments

Peter Root has just blown my mind. Over a period of 40 hours, he carefully placed and arranged 100,000 staples to create a tiny, and enormous, staple city.

Root describes his art like this:
“The work I create regularly involves highly labor-intensive, mantra-like procedures of construction and assemblage. As well as being simple, playful experiments the work often touches upon themes of impermanence, repetition, structure, pattern, scale and architecture. My work often takes the form of extremely fragile, temporary arrangements, with works subject to micro-apocalyptic events such as a light breeze or a falling leaf.”

The Making of Ephemicropolis: