Photo Challenge 3

Panda-à-Paris is pleased to present the newest collection of yet another brilliant young artist. Louis K's work responds to the fragility and ephemerality of contemporary life by focusing on the normally-unseen consequences of the consumption - and rejection - of quotidian objects. In this work, K (as he prefers to be called) transforms a residual into something beautiful, recreates the meaning of a container that once held information, but now imparts it.

Ok, so if this were a true photo challenge you'd be asked to guess the "medium" of this "art." I hope I'm not spoiling anything by telling you that these are newspaper bags, which are repurposed as receptacles for Panda's very own "works of art," which she "creates" at the park once or twice a day.

This photo challenge is actually a desperate plea: these are all the newspaper bags we have left. We need more. We originally thought we'd accumulate tons of little bags from grocery shopping here, but ever since I cut myself off from visiting every independent store in the neighborhood (boulangerie, boucherie, poissonerie, fromagerie, primeur, chocolaterie, you get the idea) once a day, our bag supply dropped quickly. So now we're asking for your help.

If you subscribe to a newspaper or if you know someone else who does, could you start saving up bags to eventually send to us? Believe it or not, no one here gets a newspaper delivered - at least, not that we've seen.

We thank you, and the people of Paris thank you.