Sunday, July 27, 2008

Paper Creations

Mix sculpture, collage, second-hand printed media, and meticulous craftsmanship and you get the lovely work by Sarah Bridgland. These "unlikely sculptures exhibit heightened sensitivity towards the organization of their spatial effects. At the same time, the sensual delight of balancing the effects of different typefaces, graphics and textures, as well as the use of paper as material support, mark these works as operating within the formal language of collage."

Each miniature structure exhibits a playful feeling that "reference children's pop-up books." I'm amazed at the curious nature of Bridgland's work, as well as the patience!

28 comments:

  1. these are OUTSTANDING! love them!

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  2. Really fantastic! I love that I could examine these for hours. Really, that's the mark of great art.

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  3. HOLY SMOKES these are absolutely incredible! Honestly. That last one is insane.

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  4. Glad you enjoy! I'm still giddy over them!

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  5. You find the most amazing things. Yes, the penny eggs are certainly an ambitious goal.

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  6. These are fantastic, I especially love the one that is "bursting" out of the staple box. Great find as usual!

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  7. These are great! You find the most amazing artists!

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  8. gosh, I can't even imagine how much time goes into making these. They are so detailed.

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  9. Truly amazing! I wish i had the patience for art such as this.

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  10. And the Swedish votes:
    10 points!
    Lovely I must say....
    /Drömma Lotta

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  11. looks super fun to me, love the colours :)

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  12. wow! i'd love to be small and explore inside each one. i love pop-up books.

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  13. Wow. I might start making something as fiddly as this but there is no way I would ever have the patience to finish it!

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  14. these are crazy cool. i love when people work with paper in an interesting way. :)

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  15. wow! Now you have to know I'm loving these :)

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  16. Very cool and interesting! ;) Thanks for sharing such amazing stuff!

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  17. There you go again at finding the most amazing people. Love them.

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  19. These are amazing! So intricate. The patience it must have taken to accomplish these and as you said, "meticulous craftsmanship". Great post!

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  20. wow - these are incredible! i don't know how people have the patience to do such incredibly detailed work! much appreciation to this gal, she's very talented!

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  21. Amazing! It always astounds me the creativity that's out there!

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  22. I adore these little creations! They make me so happy!

    I was the little girl who was always drawing up little houses, with little bedrooms, little kitchens for my dolls and barbies :) I loved the borrowers and other little people stories because suddenly all the little things in life held new discovery!

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  23. Good golly, these are amazing!

    (P.S. Thank you for commenting on my blog today - it allowed me to discover yours and I am pretty much bowled over by the stuff I am finding here.)

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  24. wow, simply amazing! I don't know how people do these kinds of things.

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