PAPERVILLAIN

William Trossell, Nicholas Wood and Andrew Lyon

Everyday in London, hundreds of thousands of commuters are handed their own free paper as they approach their local station. They squash onto the tube and attempt to absorb themselves in a world of current affairs and gossip, they arrive at their stop, they exit the station and they deposit their newspaper in the first bin they encounter. This is the new travel novel… but perhaps its life doesn’t need to be so predefined. Perhaps, in reaction to our current throw away society, a better life can be afforded for it…

Formed from the limits of what a few concerned friends could carry, PaperVillain is a response to the disposable lifecycle of this daily read. Over 3 weeks, 17 pairs of hands individually folded 2542 traditional paper hats from an equal mix of London Lite and London Paper collected on the evening of Thursday 2nd July 2009. Together these paper hats formed an articulated tensile canopy from the leftovers of our morning read for The Secret Garden Festival.

This project would not have happened without the generous donation of time from the people mentioned below: Magnus Arwenhed, Bobby Brown, Erin Byrne, Ruben Cooke, Mike Dean, Andy Friend, Mary Lees, Johanna Lundberg, Dave Potter, Matt Shaw, Joakim Skajaa, Elin Svensson, Peter Webb, Abbie Whitehead, Kjen Wilkens - Thank you.

For further information please see the Press Book