We are completely fascinated (ok, not all) by The Art of Clean Up: Sorting and Stacking Everyday Objects, by Swiss artist Ursus Wehrli. Under what pressure, we live? Why did we forget his TED talk? Well here we bring. On his website you can find more videos.

Swiss artist Ursus Wehrli is releasing his new book on The Art of Clean Up, where he takes everyday scenes of disorder and rearranges them into neat rows, sorted by different attributes such as color, size, shape, and type, etc. Some of the preview images from the book seem borderline OCD, such as the pine branch that has been ordered by the needle size– others are on such a huge scale that it almost seems laughable, as if a giant had come along and re-organized a lawn full of towels and people, or a car park.

 

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Published on: August 30, 2011
Cite: "The Art of Clean Up" METALOCUS. Accessed
<http://www.metalocus.es/en/news/art-clean> ISSN 1139-6415
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