All images come from a series collected and collated during the first of the five years that I was employed at an inner-city photocopy shop in Melbourne. The copies were retrieved from large bins of waste copies which are taken each fortnight to a mill and pulped to become, amongst other things, recycled paper for use in photocopiers. For every imperfect A4 page in these folios there is a parallel that a customer has preferred to pay for and take. As well as demonstrating the numerous errors that can be made while operating the machine, the series gives some idea of the promiscuity of the business of copying and might also suggest an expanded notion of ‘public art’.

The complete set consists of thirty-six bound folios each of thirty-six A4 original electrostatic prints.

Images were originally intended to be viewed in pairs but may also be viewed as a grid.