Exploring the possibilities and many uses of paper and other materials,and the fragility of these materials.

http://www.treehugger.com/sustainable-product-design/fragile-ecosystem-sculpture-of-100-recycled-materials-by-roadsworth.html

Quoted from fragile eco system
It has become a cliché to talk about the fragility of our planet, the fragility of our ecosystem. It has become an overused term that does not mean anything. Even the cardboard boxes on which were marked 'fragile', the movers threw them out without paying any attention. In this sense, what better place than a mall to expose all these products?

'Fragile' Ecosystem Sculpture Of 100% Recycled Materials By Roadsworth

Kimberley Mok (@kimberleymok)
Design / Sustainable Product Design
July 20, 2011

Image: Screengrab from Fragile project video

Montréal street artist Peter Gibson, a.k.a. Roadsworth, well-known for his clandestine and eye-catching works of pavement art -- is back in Montréal making his mark again. But this time, instead of being arrested for using spray paint for the greater urban good, he and artist Brian Armstrong have turned to recuperated materials like plastic bottles and cardboard to make a large-scale art installation mimicking an ecosystem, now on exhibit in a downtown Montréal shopping center. Check out how it was made:

Completed over a period of three weeks and spanning over five floors of the Eaton Center, the sculpture uses 13,750 plastic bottles, cardboard, cans, bubble wrap and hangers to create an artificial ecosystem of fish, frogs, dragonflies occupying ponds, waterfalls, water lilies, cattails, algae and trees.

It took Gibson and Armstrong a year to gather and assemble the materials needed for the piece, which is titled "Fragile." In La Presse, Gibson says that the work attempts to bring awareness to the increasingly hackneyed nature of 'green' consumerism:

It has become a cliché to talk about the fragility of our planet, the fragility of our ecosystem. It has become an overused term that does not mean anything. Even the cardboard boxes on which were marked 'fragile', the movers threw them out without paying any attention. In this sense, what better place than a mall to expose all these products?

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