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Couture Dresses designed by Rami Kashou. Each dress was designed exclusively from Papyrus materials. Dresses were at Papyrus, South Coast Plaza.
I created this paper mache triptych shortly after leaving an intensive 3-year practice of Zen in 2 monasteries, and a practice center in which I served as the interim director of a death and dying program in New Mexico. I haven't had much time since then to make more sculptures, but feel like the time is ripe now. I have always had an interest in triptych, whether in painting or sculpture, and wanted objects of meditation, or objects to accompany my meditation. I liked the female form, the reminder of death, and the starkness and serenity of these figures. In Buddhism, death is not something to be avoided and reviled; it is a natural part of life, and reminder to live fully and meaningfully. I was told by a Mexican artist that the hand coming out of the head is a symbol of death.
OK, it's a bit odd, I know. This is something I made during teacher training, to demonstrate how easy it is for children to create an action model, without vast outlay on materials or time. It folds to a 4 5/8 inch square.
31 December 2008
Opening the New Years Eve festivities for Rose Hill Drive. Decided to go back and post these until I drum up some new photos.
Read about Paper Bird on the Grateful Web! (More pics posted here too!)
© 2009 Sam Holloway
Digi image from Paper Pretties. Spellbinder die cut
Hero Arts sentiment
PP unknown.
Entering into the Paper Crafts Gallery Idol 2013
Words:
I once played the oboe. For the first semester of sixth grade I was in the band but for the next semester I dropped out and turned to art as my elective. I'm not sure what drew me to art, but I had a lot of fun playing with paint and watching movies on Van Gogh and other artists. I was introduced t Gerogia O'Keefe that year and I fell in love with her large, abstrct bone and flower paintings. I continued taking art the next two years of middle school and then eventually tried for honors art in high school. My portfolio was accepted and I was very excited to start. Once I got there I realized that I was by far on the bottom of the heap for having much talent. It seemed there were others who had this keen sense of drawing and could draw exceedingly well. Over the next four years I slowly got better and moved on to AP art with the rest of my group. Art was therapeutic and fun, sitting around the easel tables and listening to the now awesome 90's music that I loved.
College let me little time for art and it was pushed to the backburner except for the yearly scrapbooks I did and the occasional dabbling in acrylics. Sometime after collge I had the urge to paint again. This time I felt like everything clicked, like I could actually see and draw and that what I was doing was fairly decent. I still don't put it on the front burner like I shoould if I wanted to be really good at it, but I am working towards that goal. Nature calls out to me and I see these intricate patterns and beatufiul colors that I want to put down on paper. I hope I'm drawing when I am 100.
almost finished paper quilt, still have got to draw in the white squares, trying to think of what to draw
Year 9's spend time understanding the properties of paper and how to manipulate it to create wierd and wonderful sculptures. Pupils then spent time lighting the sculptures and photographing them to get the best visual effects from their work.
February 11, 2009: As my dad used to say: "I'm perpetually 12 years old." After seeing Klutz's Paper Fashion activity book online one too many times, I finally went out and bought one for myself yesterday. I made my designs using old scrapbooking paper. As you can see, I designed outfits for Valentine's Day and a set of outfits for Easter weekend and hung them up on my frig. Seeing me sprawled out on the floor, stenciling and cutting out my designs, my boyfriend said that he felt like the main character Michael Bluth in Arrested Development... when Michael was dating the mentally challenged girl (played by Charlize Theron) who he doesn't know is mentally challenged. Very amusing, Chris. -_-
(I do realize I wrote "weekend" incorrectly. I was trying to center the lettering when I made the mistake. I then wrote it correctly on the back, but then I glued my designs to the wrong side - doh!)