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For years I have been fascinated by mathematician-turned-artists who delight us with their complex pleated tessellations and they often show up here on the pages of Daily Art Muse.
Towards A Torus
Dr. Goran Konjevod, a mathematics and computer science professor, creates lovely curving waves with paper using pleated tessellations. The abstract shapes form naturally by the tension of the paper “when multiple layers of paper are arranged according to regular or irregular patterns.”
Peeking Over
Big Yellow
Improvisation
Double Fluted
Slow Twist
Most of my pieces so far are abstract shapes naturally formed by the tension of the paper when multiple layers of paper are arranged according to regular or irregular patterns. In that sense, they could almost be said to be discovered, rather than invented or designed. In particular, the pieces shown in my pleat tessellation gallery pages have been developed from a single urform discovered by Paul Jackson.
Organic Origami, Goran Konjevod’s website
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Over the years I’ve shared the work of many origami artists – most often complex structures that require dozens if not hundreds of folds.
Buddha
Lazy Bear
Dinh Truong Giang follows a more minimal approach, wet folding watercolor paper to create these lovely sculptures. The work has a quiet grace that is utterly appealing.
Hippos
Polar Bear
Cats
The Kiss
DinhTruong Giang’s website
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Danish psaligraph artist Karen Bid Vejle creates many small paper cut art works, but it is the large scale installations that really highlight her talent and skill. What an endorsement for Fiskars scissors!
16.5 feet long!
“My heart and soul are at peace when I have the scissors in hand and the paper dances between the blades. If my scissors can manage to make you stop and wonder for just one instant, I will be happy.” Karen Bit Vejle
Karen’s paper cuts are made from one large, continuous piece of paper. She started 35 years ago cutting snowflakes and now cuts (with Fiskar scissors according to her website) the complex scenes she creates while listening to music. Extreme paper cutting indeed.
That’s a paper cut in the background – at the Royal Cafe.
Watch a video about this installation here
Karen Bit Vejle
Karen Bit Vejle’s website
More images on her Flickr site
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Lucrezia Bieler began her art career as a scientific illustrator. The Swiss artist, who now calls Tallahassee Florida home, uses only a pair of scissors to cut thread-width lines in a sheet of paper, creating fairy-tale-like scenes from her vivid imagination.
[Click on the images to see them full size. Amazing.]
Evil Bunny Rabbits Are Tempting Me With Their Fluffy Fur
“The fox is dreaming about his existence. He has front legs of a rabbit and not those of a fox because he feels sympathy for the rabbits that he eats and tries to relate to them (evoking the proverb: “to be in someone else’s shoes”). When you look at his eyes, you can see that one of the eyes looks sad and the other look vicious, as if he would have bipolar disorder. So you can see in his eyes the yin/yang that’s in every creature. The forest that surrounds the fox shows the life cycle of the rabbit.”
Kokopelli
Bieler cutting Kokopelli
Polar Star
“All of my cuttings are cut out of a single sheet of paper. That means that the remaining design is still one piece of paper. The only instrument that I am using is a pair of small scissors.” Lucrezia Bieler
Lucrezia Bieler’s website
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{Thanks for your patience as I continue to recover from a particularly nasty virus. I miss my boundless energy – if you see it can you please send it home?}
Do Eun Hyung Kim’s three-dimensional pencil drawings on crumpled paper bring drawing into the category of sculpture? The Korean artist explains that the “folded lines on a crumpled surface provides for interesting story lines, as this visual format lies between sculpture and two-dimensional drawings. Viewers can travel around in the crumpled structure by following tiny clones that I have designed.”
The Station Of The Romantic Meteorites, detail
Crumpled Memories
Crumpled Memories
Crumpled Memories, detail
“I sweep out my thoughts from my mind and pour those images into my work. This process of “sweeping out” makes very dense and crowded images as various forms of doodling, and it directly shows what I have inside me—even every detail of my private memories.”
Eun Hyung Kim’s website
Giveaway Winner Announced!
Thanks to everyone who left a comment on the Thanksgiving post. The winner of a seat in the January 2012 Artist Online Seminar is Selena Palmer. Congratulations! Selena, expect an email from me soon – I look forward to having you in class – you will love learning how to create a website that supports your art.
You can join me in class too – register before Thursday to take advantage of the early bird discount. Click here for more information.
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