My name is Erik Kessels, I am from Amsterdam in the Netherlands. My part of the story that I visualised was all about advertising and recycling, and the fact that the story where the whole piece was based on of course was seven hundred years from now. There has been a digital storm so all of the memories have been lost and I made a kind of 'Trash Palace' out of it. So you have a sacred palace almost made out of all the memories and all the compressed memories nowadays end up in these huge paper bales. So walking through and looking at them you find all kinds of personal memories, old printed matter and that is what I would like to say with this. Normally when you are with these paper bales you see them in factories. The stream of information nowadays goes so quick and before you know it, everything is recycled again. So the idea is that when people walk through here they can also touch it, they can read parts of it and hopefully get a little bit overwhelmed by the information on it.
We did research at companies that make these paper bales - like factories that actually compress them - and it’s strange to see that there are all kinds of flavours as well in these paper bales. So you can have very colourful ones, very grey ones made only out of newspaper. Its bizarre how fast recycled material moves and how fast recycling goes.