Papercraft Objects: Digital Samples

Object 1.
This piece is a frog. I did this by stitching together the shapes. I used to make origami paper frogs so that is where I drew my inspiration from.

Object 2.

This bird is simplistic it has one side at the back that is open so that it would be able to be suspended in the air but also move should air travel into it. The inspiration for this piece came from "M" birds the ones used to depict birds far away the viewer. 

Object 3.
This piece is a starting place for my papercraft idea of the thing I lost. It will however have more shapes added onto and perhaps within it. This one being the starting place for an organ I no longer have.

Object 4.

Originally I was thinking of sun dial when I created this. I however ended up adding larger triangles
 to this and thus made it a confusing sun dial, one in which no one would be able to tell the time.

Object 5.

This piece is a skull, I just started stitching pieces together and removing pieces and this what I was left with. This eye less, nose less skull represents the blindness of society to the ableist views breed into it.

Object 6.

A shell less snail, as time passes and life moves forward things are lost. A snail who lost its shell would indeed be formless like its rolled out form. 

Object 7.
This piece was inspired by the folded paper game of chance where you make a paper pope hat. https://ourpastimes.com/how-to-make-a-paper-pope-hat-12543311.html 

Object 8.
For this piece I was aiming to create a dome like building with open glass windows, simplistic and aiming for a similar feel to the Amphitheater in Australia.

Object 9.
A sugar cube broken down into its simple form. Sugar cube are something I remember from childhood as my mother dropped them into her tea.

Object 10.

This shape is a pyramid, it does represent anything in particular but it did help me to learn the stitching aspect for the project. 

Failure piece...
There was for sure more then one of these pieces where I over stitched and perhaps didn't stitch right to the end. I found this project to be the most challenging and perhaps the most frustrating for me so far. I did want to do circular shapes since those are the shapes I like the most. Circular shapes would also be needed for my idea for paper craft. I do think I have a lot of learning to do still with rhino. Even when I stitched and stitched going around and creating what I thought was a closed area it would still leave a wire frame. This left me perplexed and confused. I am looking forward to learning more and hopefully figuring out how I keep running into the same issue. 

Papercraft Research

Paper sculpting, creating a 3D object out of flat paper, is an enticing concept. I looked through the list of the artists who create paper crafted items. I have to admit some of them seemed intricate; the overall attention to detail that Li Hongbo creates is breathtaking. I ended up finding my inspiration later down the list of artists. Raya Sader is a paper artist she has an Esty shop and is known for her minute plants crafted out of paper.

            Sader, created various little plants of paper. These pieces are tiny and cute, and all seem to have their personality. Sader attributes much of what she does as learned from architecture. "I think architecture has influenced everything I do, I feel like I apply in some way everything I learned, everything from color, composition and model making, to structure, architecture taught me to see the world differently (I love it so much) and I feel it's always present in what I do" https://www.brwnpaperbag.com/2018/08/08/raya-sader-bujana-paper-plants/

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2016/04/paper-olympians-raya-sader-bujana/ 

 
Sader also pays close attention to detail as she shares her Olympic paper sculpted humans. The piece I wish to create is an organic form, one in which may be seen as unconventional and far from a traditional design route. The attention to a tiny detail in the majority of her work made me want to do something similar. Is this achievable? Since I haven't ever crafted or sculpted out of paper, this will be an exciting project to tackle.

Sader's human forms are well-executed, she uses various layers of papers in varied shapes to create the depth of her piece. The people are devoid of facial features, but you still get the sense they are Olympic athletes because of their physicality. Ideally, I would like to create a piece that invokes questions or confusion. Since the object to me is something that I lost. The part of me that will forever be missing.

Mesh Mashup: HD Renders (Milestone Project 1)

             

             

As per usual, I again changed my image; I have a tendency to not do the same things the same way twice. Mostly because it is boring for me. I like challenges in general. I must push myself to learn to become a fully rounded artist. This week we used a new program called Rhino 6, it was an interesting learning curve.

This piece has really got me thinking of my over all practice and the reasons I create things. I always aim to create though provoking things, and many times with a political message. As we know this piece represents the unnecessary capture of Orca’s and the short lives they live within captivity. 

Third time is a charm perhaps. I decided to do less people on this one and have them staggered, perhaps a morbid thought for me to have to wish that the tourist numbers to these parks dwindle out. The orca’s I made bigger to make the cup look even smaller, that there is truly no room for them to live a comfortable life. I chose to do many things in this piece in a metallic feel, I find the reflective surfaces of metal to be fascinating and also to represent the hardnosed corporate monsters. Perhaps a feeling of disgust washes over others when they look at my pieces. Reality isn’t pretty. I chose a reflective surface instead of a bold shadow because the within the confines of the orca’s prison they see human faces and then their own. Reminded that they are unable escape, and must continue to do tricks for food. The people are staggered some in odd positions to show the naivety or drunkenness of society. Ignorance is not bliss it is a false sense of bliss, ignorance is ignoring the truth. These people are the ones being sucked into the corporate vacuum.

Changing the colour slightly, materials used and size gives my render an air of creepy realistic surrealism. I hope to change minds, provoke thoughts and encourage others to do their research.