Digital Rendering
Our topic for this week was paper craft. I am familiar with this type of art because I am a fan of modular origami. Modular origami is when you combine multiple geometric units formed from multiple sheets of paper to form polygons or polyhedra.
For this week's assignment, students were told to do a research of paper craft artists who inspire them. I have more than one artist that gives me inspiration on a design I planned to make. They are:
Junji Ito
Raya Sader Bujana, Hari and Deepti has the layering style that I am interested in. Their paper craft masterpieces gives off a wonderful three dimensional feel. Bujana's olympic figures were a product of her skill in architecture, using serial planes techniques on human anatomy, which is often used for landscapes. She explains, "The whole concept of this design was to express movement using paper. The added texture, light and volume that the technique provides reinforces the fluidity of the pieces." The couple, Hari and Deepti, creates paper cut light boxes that creates visual narratives. With the way the light is set up in the couple's work, it gives off a contrast of the shadows and highlights. Their dioramas also have a very textured look from all the patterns from the paper cut. I really love the layering effect these artists have demonstrated on their work and I wish to achieve it on what I am planning to create. These artists have a stagnant work but because of its organic shapes, it makes it dynamic despite the lack of animation.
John Edmark's and Mathew Shlian's works are more geometrical and kinetic. Mathew calls himself a paper engineer who uses his engineering skills to create kinetic sculptures. They both have mathematical backgrounds during their studies. Even though Mathew failed algebra, he has always been interested in geometry and understands it better when he is able to hold it. He gets an idea in his head on how it will look in a space then work his way towards it or put the pieces together so he can understand how the work is going to look like in space. In John's case, he uses math to "clarify relationships that allows him to achieve behaviors and patterns that he is trying to create". John wants to give viewers access to the structures hidden in an amorphous space. He is also fascinated by the beauty of spirals but he also thinks that spirals "also make reference to the fact that you can never return to the same place again, that nothing ever does truly repeat". This is where my fascination on spirals or event repeated patterns come from. For some reason, most people find repeated patterns uncomforting, especially holes. I want to create something that makes viewers uneasy but also want to stay because of the patterns being used.
Which brings us to my last inspiration, Junji Ito. He is a Japanese horror manga artist who is famous for his graphic and detailed line work that uses reoccurring themes of body horror, irrational compulsion from ordinary characters, breakdown of a society and an inevitability of one's demise. A popular work of his, entitled Uzumaki, is quite popular in the horror manga genre. His works inspire me to create disturbing pieces because there are always audience who would love it despite how majority of people would feel uncomfortable about it.
For this week's assignment, students were told to do a research of paper craft artists who inspire them. I have more than one artist that gives me inspiration on a design I planned to make. They are:
- John Edmark
- Raya Sader Bujana
- Mathew Shlian
- Hari and Deepti
- Junji Ito
Couple of these artists are not paper craft artists but because of them, I have the drive to create what I want. Here are some of their works.
John Edmark
Raya Sader Bujana
Mathew Shlian
Hari and Deepti
Junji Ito
Raya Sader Bujana, Hari and Deepti has the layering style that I am interested in. Their paper craft masterpieces gives off a wonderful three dimensional feel. Bujana's olympic figures were a product of her skill in architecture, using serial planes techniques on human anatomy, which is often used for landscapes. She explains, "The whole concept of this design was to express movement using paper. The added texture, light and volume that the technique provides reinforces the fluidity of the pieces." The couple, Hari and Deepti, creates paper cut light boxes that creates visual narratives. With the way the light is set up in the couple's work, it gives off a contrast of the shadows and highlights. Their dioramas also have a very textured look from all the patterns from the paper cut. I really love the layering effect these artists have demonstrated on their work and I wish to achieve it on what I am planning to create. These artists have a stagnant work but because of its organic shapes, it makes it dynamic despite the lack of animation.
John Edmark's and Mathew Shlian's works are more geometrical and kinetic. Mathew calls himself a paper engineer who uses his engineering skills to create kinetic sculptures. They both have mathematical backgrounds during their studies. Even though Mathew failed algebra, he has always been interested in geometry and understands it better when he is able to hold it. He gets an idea in his head on how it will look in a space then work his way towards it or put the pieces together so he can understand how the work is going to look like in space. In John's case, he uses math to "clarify relationships that allows him to achieve behaviors and patterns that he is trying to create". John wants to give viewers access to the structures hidden in an amorphous space. He is also fascinated by the beauty of spirals but he also thinks that spirals "also make reference to the fact that you can never return to the same place again, that nothing ever does truly repeat". This is where my fascination on spirals or event repeated patterns come from. For some reason, most people find repeated patterns uncomforting, especially holes. I want to create something that makes viewers uneasy but also want to stay because of the patterns being used.
Which brings us to my last inspiration, Junji Ito. He is a Japanese horror manga artist who is famous for his graphic and detailed line work that uses reoccurring themes of body horror, irrational compulsion from ordinary characters, breakdown of a society and an inevitability of one's demise. A popular work of his, entitled Uzumaki, is quite popular in the horror manga genre. His works inspire me to create disturbing pieces because there are always audience who would love it despite how majority of people would feel uncomfortable about it.
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