We have featured some pretty bizarre illustrations in the past, like a city built from 100,000 toothpicks, a Jimi Hendrix's portrait from 5,000 guitar picks, a Mohammad Ali portrait from 1300 boxing bags, massive installations created from food, a knitted Ferrari, a fat monkey created from 10,000 flip flops and many more. Today we bring you an equally bizarre and creative installation from Peter Root, who created his own miniature city using 100,000 staples.

He calls it Ephemicropolis, a city that covers 600x300 cm of floor area and and took 40 hours of extremely patient and careful hard work.

"As stacks are free-standing and are tessellated very close together, the obvious challenge was not to knock them over. I think there is a beauty in making something that requires so much precision, care, time and effort, yet destined to last for only a short period of time." shares Peter.



Further adding, "I feel people are able to recognize and connect with the labor involved in the creation process of a work like 'Ephemicropolis', and that there is an element of excitement knowing that 40 hours of the hard work could be destroyed in a few seconds."