Artists 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 4inchtall skyscrapers, 1stapletall lowrise 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 Its grandeur is precarious and highly vulnerable to microapocalyptic events such as a light breeze or a falling leaf, Root told AOL News in an email interview. This isn t the first time Root used staples in his art. The little metal fasteners played big roles in his works q