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Wow! That’s a lot of paper!

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Science & Technology    7 months ago    41pounds.org

Flatbed Press in Austin, Texas opened an exhibit earlier this month by artist Annette Lawrence that highlights the amount of junk mail that one person receives over the course of a year. The exhibit, called “Free Paper,” displays the artist’s junk mail shredded into two-inch wide strips and then stacked in 12 piles — one for each month of 2008. The total weight of all of her junk mail is 265 pounds. The tallest (and heaviest) stacks of junk mail are around the winter holidays.

Because I like things to be generally nice and tidy, I find the stacks oddly comforting to look at, almost beautiful. (Granted, I have only seen images of the exhibit via the Internet.) Still, the message behind the artwork is clear. In an interview with KXAN, a local Austin news channel, Lawrence says that she wants visitors to the exhibit to take a way a sense of “wow, that’s a lot of paper.”

And a lot of paper it is!

If you’re in Austin, check out the exhibit, which runs through February 6th at Flatbed Press and let us know what you think!

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