Office stationary isn't something we'd normally associate with creativity but after drawing pin art comes Ephemicropolis - a sculpture made entirely of staples.
Artist Peter Root spent no less than 40 hours lying down with 100,000 of the small metal fasteners slowly building them up into what, if you squint a bit, look like a sprawling metropolis of skyscrapers.
Peter, whose sculpture was displayed in the foyer of a financial business (where else?) in Guernsey for a month before being demolished, explained: "It took forty hours of very careful balancing and arranging the magazines of staples - it was extremely fiddly.
"The magazines of staples were all free-standing -not a squirt of glue or a magnet in sight, so it had to be built somewhere that was strictly 'weather-free', as a breeze or rain drop would have had a cataclysmic effect of the installation.
Peter Root building Ephemicropolis
"I like to experiment with the materials I use for my work, and staples are available in huge numbers, at a relatively low cost.
"I thought it was interesting that something as microscopic as a staple could be interpreted as something so monumental in scale.
"The horizontal lines of the individual staples that form a magazine are suggestive of bleak tower-blocks or skyscrapers. The material finish of the particular staples I used to to create Ephemicropolis is very shiny, which creates a glittering disco-ball effect as the sun light passes over the faces and edges of the stacks of staples throughout the day.
"However, owing to the nature of the sculpture, Ephemicropolis was temporary.
"The installation remained standing for one month before the 'apocalypse' - when the staples were sadly, swept into a box - which took about 10 minutes."
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