Saturday, December 27, 2014

Flexible paper sculptures

mariyam | 8:29 AM | | | |

The pretty lady stands behind a sculpted bust.  Then she does something incredible (click on the instagram gif at the link to animate it).
To make his sculptures Li uses a stencil to paste glue in narrow strips across large pieces of paper that he then sticks together to form blocks of 500.

He stacks the blocks to the desired height -- an average bust is over ten blocks or 5,000 sheets of paper high -- then cuts, chisels and sands the large block just as if it were a piece of soft stone.
The process is explained and illustrated in this video:

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