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Matilda (The Roald Dahl Story) Book Sculpture by Su Blackwell

London-based artist Su Blackwell (previously here and here) created this book sculpture of Matilda, The Roald Dahl Story.

"Matilda is a recent commission, cut from the pages of Roald Dahl's book, illustrated by Quentin Blake. I'd like to thank Quentin Blake for being so gracious as to let me incorporate his illustration of 'Matilda' in this work."

All images are © Copyright of Su Blackwell

Check her website: http://www.sublackwell.co.uk/

Paperholm by Charles Young

Edinburgh-based Charles Young creates these miniature paper scenes that move, using watercolor paper, for his series called 'Paperholm'.

"In my design projects I used model-making as a way of sketching and developing ideas."

It took him from 30 minutes to 3 hours to complete each piece, depending on the complexity.

"Over the last three months I really got to know the material that I'm working with a lot better. By trying to make different shapes with the paper you get to learn its limits in terms of how much it will bend and how finely you can cut it."

"The paper that I've been using is just ordinary watercolor paper but it has a good balance between its flexibility and its strength. The most important thing is simply to use a sharp blade to cut with, this allows you to get good straight edges and to pick out fine detail."

All images are © Copyright of Charles Young

Check his website: http://www.paperholm.com/

Source: mymodernmet

Siren Songs by Sam Breach

San Francisco Bay Area-based photographer Sam Breach created a series of beautiful photos created in Iceland, titled 'Siren Songs'.

"I visited Iceland in April 2014. It was an incredible experience. I have always been attracted to images depicting unusual Icelandic landscapes, but because I love to photograph people, photo workshops in Iceland rarely appealed to me as they were catering mostly to landscape photographers. So, when I heard that Miss Aniela was organizing a Fashion Shoot Experience in Iceland it didn’t take much to persuade me to sign up."

"There were a couple of challenges. The first was the weather. It was crazy and it kept changing radically in a matter of minutes. One moment it would be blue skies, the next minute grey, and then we’d have rain, or a full on snow blizzard. It was totally mad. The models were absolutely fantastic, hardy, good humored and resilient, but the conditions meant that there was a limit to how long they could pose for in each location. This led to the next challenge - we were sixteen photographers and we quickly learned that because of the tumultuous weather, one on one time with the models would be extremely scarce. We mostly had to shoot whenever and wherever we could, often paparazzi style."

"I quickly realized that the danger might be in everyone’s photographs looking the same, so I began to try and distance myself from the rest of the group by getting down on my belly, or shooting at perpendicular angle from everyone else. I also spent a lot of time wrapped up in my thoughts about the landscape and how it was speaking to me. At some point during the week I had an aha moment where I envisioned the landscape being part an imaginary/ fantastical under water inspired theme and the idea of Siren Songs was born. After that I could hardly wait to get back home then, to shoot some aquarium footage that would help me make the pictures forming in my head into a reality."

"The project wasn’t commissioned, but my personal goal from the outset was to get it published in Dark Beauty Magazine as a six image editorial sequence. At the time they had a Wild Card issue coming up with a freestyle theme so I was able to submit Siren Songs for that. I was selected and you can find my work in issue #35."

"I am very happy with the way the project turned out. It was wonderful for me to see all the ideas swimming around in my head come together in exactly the way I envisioned to create a visual story throughout a sequence of several images. Siren Songs happened because of the input of a great team."

All images are © Copyright of Sam Breach

Check her website: http://www.sambreach.com/

Source: mymodernmet

Wire Frames by Thomas Raschke

Berlin-born sculptor Thomas Raschke created wire frames of everyday objects using steel wire.

"Imagine you need a black rope to draw a line in space. The clearest solution is wire; the cheapest solution is steel."

Raschke spends about six weeks molding and soldering each 1:1 scale sculpture.

He is using 3.8 mm steel wire which gives the best impression of lines in space. It is thick enough to prevent the sculpture from breaking, visible from a distance of 5 m, and thin enough to reveal the details of the work.

Check his website: www.thomasraschke.de/

Geometric Paper Sculptures by Wolfram Kampffmeyer

Stuttgart-based designer Wolfram Kampffmeyer creates these DIY geometric paper animal sculptures that resemble to 3d computer models.

“It was difficult working with virtual models all the time and never being able to really touch them! Then I found a program that lets me transform a 3D model into a papercraft kit. That was 2010 and this was the beginning of PAPERWOLF”

“I played around a bit and then developed the first model exclusively for making it out of paper. And one thing came to the next – and BANG, the Big Five series (Lion, Elephant, Rhino, Buffalo and Leopard) was born”

“The only limitation is the number of polygons a model can have. If there are too many, you will need a long time to assemble. And if they are too tiny, you will have problems too. So I always try to find a middle way here: I want my animals to have a certain amount of liveliness and still want to be able to put them together in a reasonable time.”

“I want to make the Paper WOLF, a big sculpture half coming out of the wall. And I’m working on a bee and a fish. A Snake and an Owl are finished as prototypes, but not yet published. And I have too many ideas in my head and too little time to make them all…“