Uprising - The Movie

Did a quick video of my very large PopUp Sculpture, Uprising, for PopUpTober. 

Ziggurat

I set myself the project of creating a Pop-Up Accordion Book using Japanese Papers, which are very tough, but also soft. I wanted to make a sewn book. All of the structures are sewn into the backing paper. Some lino-print patterns have been added, as well as decorative stitching. I had to devise a way to stitch the structures so they would move freely and didn't use the tabs I would normally use to glue them in place. It was fun having to figure out new ways to make the pop-ups work within the parameters I set. You can see by the not-quite-as-neat stitching on the Tetrahedron (pictured last) that there was some trial-and-error. I didn't pull out the stitching for fear everything would tear, though the paper is very resilient. 

Summer Projects

Trying to get odds and ends used up and finish some projects that were started and abandoned. Sometimes everything goes together beautifully but most often it's a struggle!

I've got several of these small (5 1/2"x 11") folios on the desk at the moment. It will be great to get them done and on display.

Parallel Fold Pop Ups

I was digging through my box of WIPs and came across this piece. It's cut from paper that was splattered with paint, then folded and smooshed for symmetry and to give the paint cool textures - something I often do with my papers. Then I cut into the negative spaces  - I love the shapes I get from this method - they're really interesting to me. I play with the cut papers until I'm happy with the design and then start gluing. It's a simple parallel fold pop-up - made more complex by the 'random' shapes. 

Reading the Runes

A few month ago I saw a Call for Submissions by the CarpOs Collective to display work in a single window space at Gallery 1313. I thought it would be fun to try a large pop up in that space, applied, and was accepted, much to my joy!

This is the work I created specifically for that space - 66" x 25" x 22"...called 'Reading the Runes'. The imagery is from ongoing studies of a series of photos I took of tar fixes on asphalt parking lots, which I call Targlyphs, because that's what they look like. 

This pop up is the largest I've made, to date. It really does work and I'm looking forward to seeing it in its space in a couple of weeks.