Richard Sweeney

At first he intimidated me, then he made me jealous, then I despised him, and now, I can't stop stealing his ideas! I give you... Richard Sweeney.

The simplicity of the "shell-like" sculptures Sweeney has cleverly created work together extremely well in this 2X2 image design. I think this piece is so fascinating; the odd thing about his design is that you cannot tell whether each shell is different or just captured at different angles. 

After looking closely at the last shot, I think I have figured that Sweeney sliced the piece of card with the intention of leaving large to small widths in between each cut.

After deciding that I'm not a natural paper sculptor,  I quickly realised that this sort of thing is actually in my sculpting range. I've been playing about with this idea for a couple of days and I must say, even if it does take me about half an hour to try and match Sweeney's fantastic works of art, the simplicity of it really astounds me.  I've found that the paper pieces which have soft curves work best, I'm not sure if this would work as well if the paper had not been sliced, but this is something I can choose to experiment with.  I have finally got an idea in mind, which will be to use this as inspiration but in a different form. Hallelujah!