Avant Gard artist, Simon Schubert, is the one who crafted the striking works I thought you'd all like to see, in case you hadn't.
"For his first solo exhibition at upstairs Berlin Simon Schubert has created an accessible room. Ceiling and walls are covered completely with panels of paper folds in which other works of paper are embedded."
"...In barely noticeable interplay of positive and negative convolution arises, depending on the viewing direction, a sculptural portrait, but the next moment again invisible to the interview. This portrait, shimmering between two-and three-dimensionality, drawing and relief object image and is characterized mainly by the reduction of design elements. Again and again, it seems to tilt into nothingness, it displays the variable in the change of light or the viewer position." (Google translation of Simon's index page written by Magdalena Kröner)
There's some web-cussion about how, Mr. Schubert creates these:
The display site uses a language I don't know, German perhaps, but from what I've picked up, he apparently claims to make these ghostly illustrations by folding the paper rather than by embossing with a stylus tool as I would have thought. Some say he's either folded or straight-line embossed these by hand, which is possible. But I have another theory though, no less impressive to have employed.
What if a line art image of a real room was broken out into the mountain and valley folds we see in the finished work, such that they could be output to a plotter similar to a CraftRobo (computer controlled cutting device made by Graphtec) seen demo'd for origami here by Jeff Rutzky:
*Sleuthing breakdown: To re-find the artist, I opened the old unnamed screen grab in Photoshop and looked under "file info" and got the date that I had grabbed the image. Then I learned (by Googling!)how to sort my browsing history in Firefox by date--Viola! Pay dirt.
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Very Cool Shelley! interesting find.
Thanks, Jaime! How do you think he creates these?
Cool find. Judging by the size of these pieces I don't think they would fit through a craftrobo maybe a more industrial plotter. Looking at how the paper warps and the large size I think it's really plausible it's all hand folded. Maybe drawn out on the back of the paper lightly?
Thanks, Matt, I think you are quite right. I think these are hand drawn, but maybe not without some kind of photographic reference.
I was more thinking of how I might attempt such a thing AND looking for any reason to spring for a CraftROBO!
I think they are probably hand made as well. It seems crazy, but looks that way to me.
I think the Craft Robo is on the right track, but if he is really selling these works for over $5000 a piece he could certainly have sprung for an industrial plotter, kind of like the kind Robert Lang uses. Chris Palmer, who frequently works with laser cutters explained to me that with plotters you really can fine-tune the amount the laser scores the paper. To me there's no doubt that Simon creased over most of the lines to pronounce them, but having the initial lightly-scored lines generated from the plotter most-certainly helped. Even knowing he used a computer, regardless, his vector line art itself is splendid and the paper creasing a novel idea! $5000 seems a bit pricey to me, but then again, most fine art is.
- Jeremy Shafer
Well done, Jeremy, I couldn't even suss out the prices!
It's an interesting technique concept indeed. Effective.
I have a friend with a commercial laser cutter and have hired him to produce some of my pop-up designs. He was indeed able to adjust the laser's power (slightly)to create score lines vs. the cuts.
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