Made at sunset on a chilly evening, from two brown paper bags full of paper towel rolls, cut into thirds, then painted with an old sponge brush, inside and out.
Anemones and sweetgum fruit: Nature-inspired cardboard sculpture
Anemones and sweetgum fruit: Nature-inspired cardboard sculpture
Sea anemone-esque piece made from toilet paper rolls
Following up from last week’s cardboard toilet paper roll project, I decided to try experimenting with cut texture and a bit of paint on a few of the rolls. It was fun!
Back of the piece
To me, the result resembles fruit from the sweetgum tree, a sea anemone, or some sort of sun-dried daisy bouquet. I’d like to create an entire wall of these, and cut them at different heights to create a bit of a rolling effect. It’d also be fun to paint these with more aquatic hues and put these on the floor as an installation, since they do look a bit like tide pool creatures.
Rolling, rolling, rolling…
Rolling, rolling, rolling…
I’ve been experimenting with making a few wall pieces out of the humble yet ubiquitous cardboard toilet paper roll. I really like the fact that, when squished and glued together, they look vaguely like a honeycomb, or something cellular.
I found some beautiful and inspiring work being made out there using cardboard toilet paper cores: the narrative, miniature worlds of Anastassia Elias’ Paper Cuts series, the expressive masks of Junior Fritz Jacquet, and Yuken Teruya‘s branching corner forests.
I think the next step for me may involve color, and possibly unrolling the tubes themselves to create different shapes. It’ll be fun to keep experimenting — and the media is almost never in short supply.
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