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. 

Weekend Workshop at META4 Gallery

A stellar crop of PopUps from a fabulous group in Port Perry this Saturday. It was a beautiful day and we had a lot of fun learning how to make these nested parallel folds and platforms. Everyone took their piece in a different direction with lots of great ideas. They kept me on my toes and, as always, made me think about new directions for my own work. A big Thank You to the owners of META4 - Jen, Birgitta, and Bonnie!

Prow

Sculpted paper,spirals and layered pull-up constructions

Tide Pools

Platform PopUp - Top View

Tide Pools

Platform PopUp - Top View

Side View

Tide Pools

Parallel Layers