Artist’s ’Staple City’ comes to life - Artist Peter Root
(May 7) -- Los Angeles has the Staples Center. Guernsey has the staple city.
Artist Peter Root used 100,000 staples to construct a miniature metropolis on the floor of a bank atrium in the British Channel island, where the ubiquitous office supplies mimic a sprawling city with 4-inch-tall skyscrapers, 1-staple-tall low-rise buildings, and everything in between.
For the work -- dubbed “Ephemicropolis“ -- Root toiled for 40 hours, meticulously piecing together the imaginary city. That wasn’t easy, because the tiniest errant gesture could have made the metropolis collapse like a set of dominoes.
Peter Root
Artist Peter Root builds his staple city “Ephemicropolis.“
“[I]ts grandeur is precarious and highly vulnerable to micro-apocalyptic events such as a light breeze or a falling leaf,“ Root told AOL News in an e-mail interview.
This isn’t the first time Root used staples in his art. The little metal fasteners played big roles in his works &q
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Artist’s ’Staple City’ comes to life - Artist Peter Root