{"id":5121,"date":"2011-10-24T11:31:59","date_gmt":"2011-10-24T10:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookleteer.com\/blog\/?p=5121"},"modified":"2011-10-24T23:01:32","modified_gmt":"2011-10-24T22:01:32","slug":"sewn-paper-sculptures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/2011\/10\/sewn-paper-sculptures\/","title":{"rendered":"Sewn Paper Sculptures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve been following this blog even remotely, you might have sussed my interest in papercraft and recycled materials, possibly partly due to my own artistic limitations. I&#8217;m in awe of artists who can do what I can&#8217;t &#8211; produce highly visual and sculptural pieces, rather than simply text, and particularly transform paper, something I use purely as a medium to scribble on and create artifices, into more then just a 2D vessel.<\/p>\n<p>Continuing in this tradition, I&#8217;d like to share the work of <a href=\"http:\/\/jennifercollier.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jennifer Collier<\/a>, spied via the good folks at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcodesign.com\" target=\"_blank\">Fast Co Design<\/a>. Using a sewing machine, she stitches found pieces of paper as if they were cloth, into all manner of three-dimensional sculptures. Shoes, clothes, everyday objects, even a camera and a <em>typewriter<\/em> &#8211; I think there&#8217;s a delicious absurdity in crafting a model of a tool, using the material it usually spews out.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bookleteer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/typewriter1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5123\" title=\"typewriter\" src=\"http:\/\/bookleteer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/typewriter1-500x331.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/typewriter1-500x331.jpg 500w, https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/typewriter1-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/typewriter1.jpg 693w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve been following this blog even remotely, you might have sussed my interest in papercraft and recycled materials, possibly partly due to my own artistic limitations. I&#8217;m in awe of artists who can do what I can&#8217;t &#8211; produce highly visual and sculptural pieces, rather than simply text, and particularly transform paper, something I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[51,337,62,132],"class_list":["post-5121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspiration","tag-hand-made","tag-inspiration","tag-paper","tag-paper-sculpture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5121"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5129,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5121\/revisions\/5129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}