making something out of something

this book-shelf made out of books sparked my imagination.

where specifically lies the facination of making a container out of the content it is trying to contain?

a dinner-table made of dinner tables, chairs made of miniature chairs, for dinner: macaroni on an edible plate of macaroni.

a self-referencing catch-22, can one imagine an object made out of a material created of itself?

this inquiry leads one to think about the world of the micro-cosmos. amoebas self replicating ad infinitum. Syngnathidae. common skin cancer.

random doris salcedo reference.