For his art installation he calls ‘Ephemicropolis’, Root broke stacks of staples into various sizes and arranged them over a floor area of approximately 600 x 300 cm, with the tallest ‘building’ being 12cm high.
Using only his hands over 100,000 staples were stacked to build this massive metropolis of steel.
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