The meticulous paper art of Hiroki Saito – a variant of the Japanese art of kirigami (cut paper).
Taking several months to complete, each piece starts with an A3 or A4 sheet of delicate black mulberry-fibre washi paper into which Saito excises staggeringly detailed patterns before adding coloured paper as a backdrop.
The very impressive pop-up sculptures, greeting cards and packaging designs of artist Peter Dahmen.
He also gives tutorials.
Single sheets of watercolour paper dextrously folded into facial profiles by Polly Verity. It’s all about the ‘curved folds’, sez she:
I tried to fold along the profile of a face, and I realized that I could tweak the paper on either side just very slightly and ease curves out to give volume and form. When I tried the same technique in watercolour paper, I suddenly had micro-control over the resulting curved forms and they became soft and sensual. So each face goes on to inform the next and they have become a sort of series.
‘Exodus’ by French paper artists Zim & Zou: an armada of magnificent flying dirigibles – each one hand made, with its own unique geometries of form and colour built up from cut and stacked paper.
They also sell them, if you’re of a mind.
A fascinating short (if you have a quarter of an hour to spare) in which physicist and origami master Robert J. Lang explains his artform’s eleven levels of difficulty: from the folding of a simple, traditional cicada to an extremely intricate one.
The intricate and ingenious folded paper art of Ekaterina Lukasheva – matt and iridescent paperworks that expand and contract, encapsulating two different forms in one.
The impossibly delicate hand-painted art of UAE based artist Julia Ibbini.
Ibbini’s laser-cut, algorithmically generated paper sculptures are inspired by Islamic absract art, embroidery and meenakari enamel work – each one built up in multiple layers and meticulously coloured in brilliant shades of pink, blue, yellow, and orange.
