Tuesday, January 11, 2022

The Beautiful Paper Art of Richard Sweeney #ArtTuesday

The paper art of Robert Sweeney doesn’t look like paper at all. It looks like the wind. Here’s more from Colossal:

Sweeney’s process has remained largely the same during the last few years, and he still crafts a variety of malleable, modular forms like the pliable helix shown below, although he now gravitates toward more organic shapes that appear to flow from one end to the other. “I like to go out walking in the countryside, so there is plenty to see there that influences me—birds in flight, streams, and rivers, cloud formations—so I’ll make sketches and take photographs and let that guide my sculptural work. I don’t usually work with a particular form in mind,” he says, noting that each sculpture often takes multiple weeks to complete.

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