Papercraft

I've been looking at various examples of Papercraft, and its pretty amazing to see what people are doing with such a basic material. I've had a really difficult time selecting one specific approach, but the one I'm most drawn to is Joel Cooper who creates really amazing origami masks.

I can find plenty of pictures, but the little information I have found doesn't really go into his philosophy, if he has one, or intent, other than to create something beautiful, in a new way, and to incorporate different glazes and varnishes to vary the effect. I can't find a photo of him...his Flickr page says, "I fold paper"and "occasionally I update my blog".(haha)

The way the woven strips create a polygonal solid has a striking similarity to computer generated line mesh images. It's also amazing how the varnishes and glazes make metallic, or wooden, or other types of finish depending on the process. It says that some are iridescent in real life, which he has stated is difficult to capture in photographs.

For many years I have been making masks and various other objects using paper either as the main material, or in some cases the only material, so I have some experience with this medium. I'm going to include a few examples of my own work at the end, if you are interested, although they are not as beautiful as some of the examples of paper craft you have provided, and some of the ones I've seen online. I really enjoy building things this way.

I'm also including a few really spectacular examples that you might be interested in, at the very end of my blog. Please feel free to ignore the extra stuff, I just think these deserve to be seen...if you haven't already seen them that is, haha