June 17, 2010

Horse 1094 - BOXWORLD - Obsession or Deranged?

Photo set:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/heritagefutures/sets/72157607320546485/show

At the Mosman Art Gallery near where I work, there is a display (for want of a better word) of something called Boxworld. A chap called Warren Thomas has spent the last 12 years building a "model city" out of cardboard boxes, bits of rubbish and other sorts of recyclables.

I have seen some elaborate model railways over the years, but the sheer scale of this makes all of them pale into insignificance. As I was walking around the section on display (apparantly the whole thing covers 200m²) I couldn't decide whether this was something which has just got out of hand, or the work of a deranged mind.

Words cannot accurately depict how truly odd this er... thing is.

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