Monday, July 14, 2014

Papercraft: Outbreak



Rogan Brown creates incredibly elaborate and delicate paper sculptures using layers of hand-cut watercolor paper.  His latest piece, Outbreak, is “based on the smallest structures found within the human body: cells, microbes, pathogens, and neurons.” Brown spent four months cutting and assembling this awesomely intricate piece with painstaking care to explore what he describes as "the microbiological sublime.”
"I am inspired in part by the tradition of scientific drawing and model making, and particularly the work of artist-scientists such as Ernst Haeckel. But although my approach involves careful observation and detailed “scientific” preparatory drawings, these are always superseded by the work of the imagination; everything has to be refracted through the prism of the imagination, estranged and in some way transformed."








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