I went up to the Buttermarket this morning to see the new Cabinet of Curiosities exhibition, which is all about paper, from the making of paper in a traditional French mill to the many uses of paper. There was a lovely little paper theatre, for example, and some weaving of linen and paper by a local student.
Below are the Malian writing boards, part of the collection of the Cabinet of Curiosities.
Below that is an installation called Needle in a Haystack, inspired by a work by Nigel Kerry (no books were harmed in the making of this artwork - the books were actually borrowed from Hay Cinema Bookshop).
The last picture is some information about the pollution problems that paper use causes. Other information posters were placed around the exhibition. For instance, 2.5 billion paper coffee cups are used in Britain every year, and only 1 in 400 is recycled, and 42% of the global wood harvest is used to make paper, the majority of which is used for packaging - and with the growth of companies like Amazon, packaging is big business these days.
Meanwhile in the Moulin du Verger near Angouleme, a master papermaker still makes high quality paper out of rags in the traditional way - there was a short film, in French, about the process.
The exhibition is also on tomorrow, and is free.
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