When You See What This Artist Does With Paper You'll Be Seeing Things In A New Dimension
by N/A, 9 years ago |
2 min read
Artist Matthew Shlian isn't your normal artist - not even close. Actually, he's more somewhere between a sage geometrist and an origami savant - even though, that description doesn't really do his work complete justice.
With a keenly intuitive understanding of geometry and an extremely unique artistic skill set, Shlian creates mesmerizing, 3D paper creations that are as visually mystifying as they are beautiful.
His self-repeating creations are completely handmade.
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And in geometrically technical terms, they are "modular, polyhedral forms"...
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Which sounds about as confusing as his creations look.
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Shlian's inspiration for his interest in these "self-repeating nano scale designs" comes from a place you probably wouldn't expect.
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What the artist is most fascinated by, is, " the micro patterning of nature, the structures we find on the nanoscale."
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In other words, our whole world is anatomically composed of patterns and structures like these...
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And Shlian's aim is to find beautiful ways to bring them to life.
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Suffice it to say, he's hitting his mark with brilliance.
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Do not show me this again