Broad & High

WOSU program Broad & High interviewed me about my paper craft projects last year. They produced a short segment for the program and it was aired today January 13th 2022. They interviewed and video taped me for almost 2 hours that day and edited down to about 8 minutes. So naturally a lot of things were on the cutting room floor, but overall it was a nice introduction to my side project. When I have something like this done, I am reminded that I really need to redesign my web site because right now the paper craft section on my site is pretty thin. I need to add more content to it. I think that is going to be one of my sabbatical projects...

Here is the link to the whole segment.

Stonybrook Charles B. Wang Center Paper Craft Workshops Updates

I worked on 3 paper craft workshop videos for these past few days. I just finished editing the last one and uploaded it to Google Drive to share with the Stonybrook University Charles B. Wang Center. Now I can take a breather and relax a little. The Center made an announcement of my workshops on their website as below. It's official now. For these workshops, I had to alter my original designs to fit the Center's concept and the direction of the workshops. First, I was a little reluctant to do so, but as I was working on them, I realized actually the altered versions were much more marketable because of the smaller sizes and the simpler designs. I am glad they asked me to do so. 

Paper Birds Review

This is a Library Journal review on my "Paper Birds" book which is to be out next week.

Anna-Wili Highfield

While surfing the web looking for anything related to Paper Birds, I came across this Australian artist Anna-Wili Highfield. Her animals are made of paper over copper wire armatures. The way she incorporates hand-torn edges of paper is just elegant and beautiful. The poses of the animals captured in a moment of suspension are just exquisite and truly evoke the sense of movement and energy. Here is the description of her work on her web site.

Anna-Wili's sculptures are stitched together from archival cotton rag. Her works explore the organic qualities and resistance of paper, generating a tension between the complex realism of form and the limitations and economy of the materials used. They represent animal life in an immediate way that conveys the energy, movement and physical character of different creatures. Her aim is to engineer a moment of contact with nature in a way that emphasises both the startling differences and similarities of human and animal forms and consciousness.

"Paper Birds" in progress

I just finished proofing the 1st laser print out of my upcoming paper craft book "Paper Birds". Good folks at Lark Books worked so hard to squeeze in as many projects as possible, but due to a smaller page number of this book than that of my previous "Paper Pups", they could only put in 29 projects. Well, I guess that's good news to my readers. They will have more free online bonus projects! Here are snippets of the book pages in progress. The release date of this book is June 3rd 2014.