Paper Work. 2007-2008.

A box of approximately 2500 sheets of hand cut A4 paper, which leaf-by-leaf reveals a room inside. ‘Paper Work’ illustrates the fact that we drown in forms, printouts, bills etc. despite the predictions that the digital age would herald the arrival of the ‘paperless office’ in which we are meant to exist and work, however, we are still a ‘hard-copy society’. We trust paper; we use it as evidence, for example, as proof of purchase, printing out our transactions from cyberspace. Each year it is estimated that the world consumes over 300 million tons of paper, most of which is quickly filed away. This unthinking act resonates in the emotionless environment I have created.