New Work

This vase is part of my Intersections series.  Here I am continuing to explore using flat planes to divide a curved form.  In this piece, I am playing with themes of unity and contrast between the two halves.  The two parts have the same curve defining their shape, but with a reversal of which end of the curve is the top and which is the bottom.  Each of the halves is folded from one uncut rectangle of Elephant Hide paper.

Janus was the Roman god of beginnings.  He was usually depicted with two faces pointing in opposite directions.  Likewise, this vase has two ‘faces’, two halves with different shapes.  I was originally trying to design a vase in a different shape, but I kept running into problems where I couldn’t get the paper to be where I needed it to be.  When I instead started paying attention to where the pleats naturally fell and let that guide my design, this vase was the result.  Because of the contrast in shape between the two halves, this form is probably more interesting that what I originally tried to design.

Like most of my recent work, this piece is part of my Intersections series.  The whole vase is folded from one rectangle of Elephant Hide paper.  This version has one small cut to help in collapsing the base, but I know how to redesign it without any cuts.

This vase is the newest addition to my Intersections series, using the modified pleating folding technique I developed for my last piece.  Here I am continuing to use flat planes to intersect the curved form, uniting a precise mathematical shape with a flowing organic shape.  This piece uses vertical planes to cut the form into thirds and horizontal planes to cut off the three parts at different heights.  I started planning this piece in July and only recently decided I had the time and folding ability to actually make it.  Each of the three parts is folded from a rectangle of Elephant Hide paper.

This piece is a new version of this model, also part of my Intersections series. The bowl is hinged so it can open and close.  In the original piece, I used a pleated folding technique where all the folds pointed in the same direction. Unfortunately, this caused some distortions in the shape, which are hidden in the photo I posted.  Here I modified the folding technique to use alternating directions of the pleats.  Since the folding is more symmetric, the shape of the bowl also stays more symmetric.  I am planning to use this new folding technique as I continue this series.  This piece is folded from a rectangle of Elephant Hide paper.

This piece is the newest addition to my Intersections series.  The bowl is hinged so it can close to a circle or open like you see here.  The Intersections pieces are all among my most challenging to design and fold, and this one was no exception. I’d still like to tweak the design to clean it up a bit.  This piece is folded from one rectangle of Elephant Hide paper.  As with the rest of this series, the paper is not painted.