BOX #5

Box #5 (12 lbs. 5 oz., with 2 or 3 heavy brown banana box papers)

PLASTIC BOTTLE CAPS; Spring 2001; 12″x 10 1/2″x 8 1/4″; a cardboard box completely filled with plastic bottle caps from 2-liter plastic diet soda bottles that I drank (I have long since quit purchasing 2-liter plastic bottles), tape, ink.

AOLHOLE; ongoing; currently; 6″x 8 1/2″x 5 3/4″; currently, 17 packages sent unsolicited to by address(es) each containing 1 or more CD advertisement, most are from AOL (America Online) – paper, plastic, metal.

CAT TUNNEL PADS; Summer 2005; 9″x 9 1/2″x 7 1/2″; clear tape, plastic from a banana box; blue styrofoam chunks torn from cardboard consumer electronics product packaging, brown paper.

THE ORIGINAL SHREDDED WHEAT; ongoing (right now it is 12:31:55 p.m. THU 15 NOV 2007); 11 1/2″x 7 7/8″x 3 1/8″; one 18-biscuit-sized box (no cereal inside) of Post Shredded Wheat and as of today 53 paper wrappers (each held 3 biscuits); although I have enjoyed eating Shredded Wheat since I was a kid, perhaps as early as the 1960’s, only recently did I begin saving the biscuit wrappers. My intention is to keep saving them until I have a ream of wrappers (500 ea.)…then I will bind them into a book…I will reform the box into a cover…then I will attempt to present the book to the President or CEO, in-person, of the company that owns Shredded Wheat at that future time…I will document the attempt in the book; currently Post owns Shredded Wheat and Kraft owns Post…so…mega-corporations. In an effort to positively exist within the world of mega-corps, I hope to show support for a healthful product, one that is made of only one ingredient (in this case – whole grain wheat) and comes in packaging that is 100% recyclable or is easily reusable. Note: I hope bht is not bad. Estimated time to completion: 5-10 years. Book should be: approximately 9 1/2″x 10 1/2″ x thickness of 500 pages and 2 covers.