Final Sculpture

This is my final piece it is built up with hexagonal prisms and i based it on an idea that came from a wine bottle holder. The holder used counter balancing to keep the bottle held, i tried to recreate the counter balancing effect by making something that visualy looked unstable but still stood upright. By having more weight on the top end i could keep the center of gravity in the center so even though the top end was leaning out more than the bottom end my piece still stood upright. It started out as a theory but actually couldnt have worked better. I am really pleased with my piece as it looks good both in reallity and in photographs.



Origami Crane

This is my Origami Crane that i made. I really like it and it is definatly a contender for bein an image i use in my poster. I also like the shadow of the wings in the background.

Extra Experiments With The Same Piece

Here i have used the same piece as before but i have twisted it into different wierd shape in hope to give me some inspiration.

I like the smooth continuous curves.

I love these photos looking down my pieces they look fantastic, it feels almost like your head is inside it.

Scale It Up

Here i have scaled up my piece that i created earlier in the project. i love this first picture although i could have done with focusing on the nearest point instead of the back. But i love the bright reflection from the paper.

This image reminds me of the inside of a big whales mouth.

Next Creation

This is my next creation im still running on the same technique as before but this time i made it on a slightly larger scale. I found it was much more unstable and alot harder to work with.

Here you can see the fold that i put down all the ribs of my piece. This gives a great shape to it and changes the slits so they get wider towards the crease. I think it looks good and will experiment further with this technique.



Osteology



This photo really reminds me of a photo i took of my sculpture looking down the inside of it. I think if i put a crease down the center of all the ribs on my sculpture i could immitate a spine like feature that would run down my piece. 

Looking at this skeleton of a horse shows me alot of different shapes, forms and and connections between the two that could be recreated with paper.

Ringlet Idea

I really like this idea because although it looks quite messy and unorganised, the ringlets that have been formed stay in a nice refined curve. This could be a possible contender for my final piece as works well both laid down or hung up to dangle. The only problem with this piece is it is quite hard to glue in a secure place to enable portability.

Odd Ends

With this idea i used the same technique as what i learned in the workshop but this time i twisted one end alot more than the othe end. This way one side one it would have wide set gaps in between the ribs, and the other i left it to take only the curve being delivered from the vigourous twist of the first end, so the gaps are much smaller, but because it was all one sheet of paper the flowed into each other nicely.

Another Experiment

Here i tried to create a form that rose from the surface it was sitting on. It needs some work to make it look a little smoother and more fluid but i think as soon as i photograph it on a white surface and background it will look alot more appealing.

Haruki Nakamura



Haruki Nakamura is an expert in Origami, a Japanese art that consists of creating figures by folding pieces of paper. The most difficult aspect of Origami is that no glue or staples are used in order to make these figures, they are created using nothing but folds. The folds must be hidden so that the final product will be perfectly seamless.

Not only does he create fantastic Origami, he engineers his sculptures to operate and move in a way i never thought was possible.

In my opinion Haruki Nakamura is in a league of his own and has created a whole new perspective on paper sculpture.

Calvin Nicholls



Calvin Nicholls is a Canadian paper sculpture artist. He bases most of his work on different types of animals. The subjects he tends to work on are not really to my taste but i can definatly appreciate his attention to detail, its fantastic.

Initial Creations

Here i have recreated what we learned in our workshop but on a smaller more delicate scale.



I really like the way the slits in the paper open up like a rib cage when you give it a twist at each end. It gives a flat, virtually 2d object a completely different form and turns it into a freestanding sculpture.