Normally when I think of works of art, oil paints and watercolors come to mind, not staples, pushpins, packing tape and pencil shavings. I think of works like those of Picasso that were collected by his electrician, not what will fill a shopping cart at your nearby OfficeMax.
That was my mistake. Artists can take anything including items from the average desk in a cubicle and create vibrant, lifelike portraits.
As an example check out the pic above which was formulated by Eric Dhaig using colorful pushpins in pixelated/pointilist fashion. It amazes me how someone can take a stapler or staple gun then start inserting the little bits of bent wire into a white wall at different angles and in different clusters and create an image of two bodies. Baptiste Debombourg can do just that as seen below.
Intricate pencil carver Dalton Ghetti needs to get with Kyle Bean, who uses pencil shavings to lay out portraits.
Brain Pickings has more images from Dhaig, Debombourg and other artists working with the stuff from their desks.