{"id":4475,"date":"2017-04-20T13:43:28","date_gmt":"2017-04-20T13:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/?p=4475"},"modified":"2017-07-31T14:58:58","modified_gmt":"2017-07-31T14:58:58","slug":"james-haggerty-staples-artist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/articles\/james-haggerty-staples-artist","title":{"rendered":"James Haggerty, Stapler Artist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4476\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/darth-stapler.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/darth-stapler.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/darth-stapler-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A New York artist has now used a total of 78,000 <a href=\"\/desktop-essentials\/staplers-accessories\/staples\/l-765\">office staples<\/a> to produce eco-friendly, sci-fi inspired art &#8211; and the force has remained with him!<\/p>\n<p>Lifelong Star Wars fan James Haggerty, a teacher from New York, has created several Star Wars masterpieces, including Darth Vader, Greedo and C-3PO.<\/p>\n<p>He explains on his website how he came to switch from paintbrushes and etching needles in a bid to protect his (then) unborn child:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen my wife and I were expecting our first child I made a switch from using a paintbrush or etching needle in my art to using a <a href=\"\/desktop-essentials\/staplers-accessories\/staplers\/l-6879\">common office stapler<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince I have a home studio, I didn\u2019t want the toxicity of these traditional materials to affect our unborn child. All my life I had the need to create but now it was imperative to do so with healthier alternatives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After experimenting with a staple gun, Haggerty was impressed with the results.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStaples, just like an etched line, can be bold and graphic or soft and subdued,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I use coloured staples, each one acts like a dash of paint in a painting and when viewed from only a few steps back, is optically mixed.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A New York artist has now used a total of 78,000 office staples to produce eco-friendly, sci-fi inspired art &#8211; and the force has remained with him! Lifelong Star Wars fan James Haggerty, a teacher from New York, has created several Star Wars masterpieces, including Darth Vader, Greedo and C-3PO. 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