Nils Bruun
Folded Paper Designs
Artist’s statement
The easiest way to create a paper sculpture is by crumbling a sheet of paper. I am simply crumbling that sheet in a thought out and controlled way. My paper folding as it has evolved is primarily sculptural and firmly rooted in geometry. I employ simple forms such as squares, triangles, hexagons and fit them together. Then in the folding process they separate and turn, so the shapes no longer look like the tiles on your bathroom floor. Not only do the forms rotate and separate, they seem to leave the page. At one point in the process the center of the paper may rise off the table as much as 12 to 18 inches before it is brought back down to nearly flat. Each piece has two different sides one with dancing geometrical forms and the reverse appears as a weaving.
The end product is still one sheet of paper that has as many as four layers and no cuts. I try to create a pleasing rhythm that will emphasize the texture, light and shadow. When the paper is translucent, these layers become more obvious.
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The designs are shown with out framing,
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The paper used for the following is archival machine made paper:
The following pieces are made with hand made Japanese paper:
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To contact the artist send email to nils@nilsbruun.com