A Newspaper
Sculpture
People have a
tendency to let old newspapers pile up.
Artist Jim Campbell took this idea to the extreme when
he suggested
stacking 52,325 rolled newspapers.
He convinced the Pueblo Chieftain directors to save
their
"spoils" or over-run newspapers for two-and-a-half
months.
The papers were then rolled, bundled and stacked.
Employees assembled
the newspaper sculpture in 15 hours.
The final
creation stood the height of a three-story building (30 ft. 2 in.),
and weighted about 7.5 tons.
Campbell's idea, timed in conjunction with International Newspaper
Carrier Week, graphically showed the number of newspapers Chieftain
carriers delivered every day.
The sculpture was dismantled and the newspapers were recycled.
The
recycling money was given to charity.
Artist Jim Campbell sits on the 7.5 ton,
three-story mountain of newspapers made from
52,325 rolled papers,
roughly the newspaper's
daily circulation.
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