Cardboard box, 2009

What has the 'making' brought to this work? Why would someone spend time making an object which already exists and is readily available? Not only readily available but as disposable and cheap as a cardboard box. Because I have invested this time and care into the box have i raised the the worth of this box? It may now have have more elegance and sculptural presence than the average cardboard box with its gloss painted interior and propt up presentation but essentially it functions no differently than any other cardboard box, its designed to contain an object of interest. I feel by treating the box in this manner and displaying it in this way I've offered the box itself as the object of interest, something that functions not only as a box but as a sculptural object.