Honey comb experiment

Here are some photographs I have taken from my paper experiment, which I think have worked successfully. I took the rules from the honeycomb and with folded A4 sheets of paper created this pattern, glueing together adjacent faces with normal cartirdge paper. The lighting seems sort of pinky due to my crazy lampshade but I think adds to the piece. The ripples which are visible because of glueing the sections together, even though this really annoyed me while creating the structure, I now they are effective and seem like segments and relate well with the theme of repetition.


Primary Research - Taking photos in Winter gardens

Here are some rich photographs taken in the Winter gardens where I was looking for repetition and intrecate shapes. I have based the paper experimentations in my sketchbook on these shapes.

Moodboard

^None of these images belong to me, they have just inspired me^

These are all images I have found which are beautiful examples of repetition in

 nature, using paper I intend to experiment and follow some of these natural rules.
I have found the topic of insects and their surroundings particularly interesting.

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Today we had another session with the brilliant paper sculpturist Richard Sweeney where he taught us different methods to handle the paper, giving us more control of what we want to create. A certain method which I found particularly attractive was a method of creating depth within the paper using valley folds and mountain folds in a "v" formation. 

This got me thinking after the intriguing folds in nature which are unappreciated. I want to create a sculpture based on the repetition which are created by nature. 


Lesson learnt today: paper is so delicate and working with it requires a lot of patience!!


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I like to employ a form of repetition, in which the same elements recur but in different and unexpected ways. rather than being discarded as soon as they are understood or passed over.
Graham Nelson


Repetition is the topic of this module with the restriction of only working with paper in a 3D manner.

I feel like nature would be an appropriate theme for my paper project as I have developed some natural sculptures and feel like I could gain appropriate research from my environment. I intend to research different areas such as

• wilderness, 
• life, 
• evolution, 
• civilisation, 
• weather, 
• ecosystems 

and such like to search for interesting representations in nature of repetition.