Paper Block

I wanted to control my own environmental impact and inadequacies of the recycling system made me take paper reuse into my own hands. All of the waste paper contains a lot of data and in compressing that I am simplifying the data. The form is quite useless and so I am trying to expose the uselessness of the urge to control one's own impact and instead I’m trying to prompt people to take radical action. The form of the block is meant to be a simple controlled form and its size is meant to intimidate the viewer and confront them with the scale of waste. I created a mold from wood with a threaded rod compression system. All of the paper came from my own collection of waste paper and was pulverized in a trashcan blending machine I made. I compressed the mass for 72 hours and then let it dry for four weeks.