Paper Sculpture

The assignment was to think of a word that described our first semester. Then we given a 18x24 sheet of paper to make our sculpture out of. We could do anything with it; cut, rip, crumple, wet, fold, anything. My word was adventure. I decided to make a mountain scene because it reminds me of a hike or camping, which is usually an adventure. I added a river, a cabin, and a tiny person at the top of on of the mountains to represent me. I crumpled a big piece of paper to make the mountains and then I cut little squares and crumpled those to make the trees. I folded paper into a square to make a cabin. I used hot glue to attach it all together because regular glue on a stick wouldn't work.

I used shape to make the different folds of the paper look like mountain crevices and valleys. I used balance to make sure there was a good amount of trees and not full of mountains. My word was originally intense and I wanted to make a lion, but I couldn't figure out how to do that, so I crumpled the piece of paper that I used to make the lion's face, which then turned into my mountains. Then I changed my word to adventure because mountains = adventure.

I love nature and drawing nature, so it was interesting to actually make a nature scene of out paper. I like how the folds in the paper look like the valleys in a mountain and how the cabin is kind of hidden and you have to look closely to actually see it. If my work could be better, I would add some more detail, maybe by adding tiny rocks around the river or some animals in the trees.