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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.