Aug 12

Staple City - Artist Peter Root builds a Metropolis entirely out of Staples

This deserves an Olympic medal for patience and endurance in this Staple Marathon: Artist Peter Root created an entire new world, Ephemicropolis. This miniature megalopolis is composed of myriad clusters of staples stacks of different heights, ranging from a full stack (4.5 inches tall) to a single staple. Stacks of staples can be aggravating to deal with since they tend to break at any hint of pressure. Built in a financial building on Guernsey, an island in the English Channel, the installation took over forty hours to complete. Root composed the installation with over 100,000 staples, breaking the various stacks to different lengths, and then placing them with steady hands.

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