A lil' bit of an exhibiton?

So I wanted to incorporate my unopened post (addressed to others) into my 'junkmail' piece, but had a bit of a moral struggle with myself in using them, I mean they weren't addressed to me right? And, the recurring reaction I got was:

"But hey, isn't it like hugely illegal to tamper with someone elses post...?!"

So taking this in mind, but still with this massive urge to display the envelopes, still unopened I decided to use plastic wallets to protect them! Funny because many of them already had muddy footprints on them from being on our doormat for several days (lazy students...)

I had a formation worked out by the addresse(male/female/anonymous) and used this as the basis. The piece spilled from the top of the wall to the floor, and continued onto my "junkmail rug"

As for the origami tower....

I had been making some of the leaflets in origami lillies- god knows why, and realised that when together there was something fairly Brancusi's The

Endless Column

about the formation, ideally i wanted the tower created to reach the ceiling, but have yet to create enough origami.

Again, viewers were confused by the floor piece, in that they

would rather ju

mp across the art than tread on it, despite being told they were welcome to use it as a real rug.

If this has taught me one thing:

Art can make the most

worthless object suddenly important, and sacred.

These items were all worthless previously.

As for the unopened letters, surprisingly I actually feel more responsibility for them now that they've been in my possession and

am far more likely to return them when I remove the work!