A Newspaper Sculpture

Artist Jim Campbell sits on a 7.5 ton, three-story 

mountain of paper made from 52,325 rolled newspapers.

People have a tendency to let old newspapers pile up.

Artist Jim Campbell took this idea to the extreme when he conceived, designed 

and coordinated this public art project for the Pueblo Chieftain in Pueblo, CO. 

He convinced the newspaper's management to save their "spoils"

or over-run papers 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.

The sculpture was later dismantled and the newspapers were recycled.
The recycling money was donated to a charity in Pueblo, Colorado.