I’ve just completed a new paper sculpture titled “Nesting”.
I gave myself some new challenges with this one, like designing patterns folded and shaped from a single piece of paper. The nest, the birds and the foliage are all cut from single sheets, with just the tiniest bit of gluing to insert contrast colour for the birds. As shown in the photo below (click photos to enlarge), I made 14 attempts to make a nest in this way! It’s amazing how precise a pattern has to be to make the final product look messy and unfinished!
Another challenge was entwining the foliage from separate layers together into one picture. I love working with paper, but it’s so fragile and delicate so this was quite difficult.
Nest pattern attempts! 
Weaving from a single sheet 
The final nest
Background and mounting blocks 
Central layer 
Entwining layers
