Wasting Paper?
A couple of weeks ago we were having chicken salad and I asked Anna if she wanted to know how chicken salad is made. So I cut the shape of a chicken out of paper, grabbed our paper shredder and let Anna put the chicken in the paper shredder. Voila! Chicken salad, basically.
This gave me the idea to create a paper shredding artwork. This piece here is three shredders that simultaneously shred three 8″ x 150′ rolls of paper. It makes 1/4″ strips so when you do the math: 3(150 x 32)=14,400… that’s 14,400 linear feet of paper. In other words, three rather small 8″ x 5″ x 5″ rolls make a mountain of shredded paper. The rolls take about 5 minutes to shred and it’s quite a loud process.
After a good critique, I’m working on a newer version that uses four shredders mounted above and shredding through slots in a standard 2′ x 2′ acoustic ceiling tile like the kind used in a standard dropped ceiling. The critique was an encouragement to push the possibilities of the actual shredding mechanism beyond just the crude, very plain wooden frame. The new piece also includes a recessed ceiling light situated between the four shredders. Images and some video of this new piece are forthcoming, but here are some more images of the prototype.
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