Ephemicropolis

An artist has created an entire replica city from tiny stacks of STAPLES.

Peter Root used 100,000 of the tiny metal pieces of stationary to painstakingly build the mini metropolis. The six-metre by three-metre work - called Ephemicropolis - took the part-time lecturer 40 HOURS to put together. And he said having a steady hand was needed to complete the mock city which is on display on the floor of the Northern Trust atrium in Guernsey.

Mr Root, from Guernsey, said: "As the stacks are free-standing and are tessellated very close together, the obvious challenge was not to knock them over. I think there is a beauty in making something that requires so much precision, care, time and effort, yet is destined to last for only a short period of time.


"I feel people are able to recognise and connect with the labour involved in the creation process of work like Ephemicropolis, and that there is an element of excitement knowing that forty hours of the hard work could be destroyed in a few seconds."

Ephemicropolis isn’t the first time Peter Root has chosen staples as his art medium, but it is his largest staple project, yet. Check out some of the artist’s other ingenious model.

 

 

 

Source : http://www.thesun.co.uk