Origami artist Byriah Loper has designed more interlocking wireframes than anyone else in the world and he’s just 18 years old. These are just a few of them.

Anatomical paper cuttings from the SheMakeR Etsy store.

In her series Body parts, live breath art, paper artist and photographer Bronia Sawyer shapes books into the form of body parts to illustrate how fundamental art is to her life. 

Sawyer on her work:

[After suffering from depression] Slowly I started to create again. As I started to do more art I slowly started to feel like me again and that was when I knew things were getting better I started to be me again. I used art a lot as therapy, I think I always have. I feel art is in my bones it runs through my veins, so this collection is born through that feeling. Art being part of me.

Sachin Tekade likes to make things out of lots and lots of paper flowers.

Curved Crease Sculptures by Erik Demaine and Martin Demaine

About the work:

Guided by Invoices* is pleased to present an exhibition of origami sculptures by father-and-son collaborative Martin and Erik Demaine, curated by Chris Byrne. Erik and Martin Demaine combine the art of origami with the science of geometric folding algorithms to create the aesthetic of their sculptures. In 1998, they began to investigate the folding of complex forms using curved patterns that induce paper to self-fold, which culminated in a series of three works titled Computational Origami…The selection of works on view demonstrates the extension of the Demaines’ investigations of materiality and production in the Computational Origami series. Here, hand-pleated concentric circles rest in equilibrium, twisted into elegant forms enabled by the very physics of the paper itself…The folded surfaces undulate to represent a form in hyperbolic space, guided by the properties of the paper and those of the underlying mathematical algorithms. To the Demaines, mathematics is an art form, and the ongoing dialogue between art and science is fundamental to their process.

“More and more, we find that our mathematical research and artistic projects converge, with the artistic side inspiring the mathematical side and vice versa. Mathematics itself is an art form, and through other media such as sculpture, puzzles, and magic, the beauty of mathematics can be brought to a wider audience. These artistic endeavors also provide us with deeper insights into the underlying mathematics, by providing physical realizations of objects under consideration, by pointing to interesting special cases and directions to explore, and by suggesting new problems to solve.”

*If Guided By Invoices sounds oddly familiar, it might be because the gallery is owned by Anne Brigitte Sirois, a member of the indie band Guided By Voices.

Botany is a series of paper sculptures by Maud Vantours

Alis Volat Propis (She flies with her own wings) by Taegan Robertsby is made with 1,000 origami butterflies.

Hand cut road maps by Nikki Rosato

Rosato on her work:

Our physical bodies are beautiful structures full of detail, and they hold the stories that haunt and mold our lives. The lines on a road map are fascinatingly similar to the lines that cover the surface of the human body.

In my work involving maps, as I remove the landmasses from the silhouetted individuals I am further removing the figure’s identity, and what remains is a delicate skin-like structure. Through this process, specific individuals become ambiguous and hauntingly ghost-like, similar to the memories they represent.

The figures in the Connections series find themselves bound by the roads that both separate them as well as lead them to one another. People are often separated by distance, and these connected lines represent the roads that are either explored to bring these figures together or left untraveled, further symbolizing not only their physical distance but also psychological and emotional space.

An installation view:

Marnie Karger makes these beautiful hand cut paper topographies of lakes and coastal regions and sells them in her Etsy store Crafterall. 

Feathers and fins from the beautiful paper art of Lisa Rodden

Papercuts by Peter Callesen

Cara Barer’s book art makes me want to throw my next phonebook into the bathtub instead of the recycling bin. Water and other methods of transformation have saved many manuals and reference books from the trash and turned them into these lovely treasures.

Barer on her work:

My photographs are primarily a documentation of a physical evolution. I have changed a common object into sculpture in a state of flux. The way we choose to research and find information is also in an evolution. I hope to raise questions about these changes, the ephemeral and fragile nature in which we now obtain knowledge, and the future of books.

Su Blackwell creates worlds out of books as imaginative as the ones in them.

Blackwell on her work:

Paper has been used for communication since its invention; either between humans or in an attempt to communicate with the spirit world. I employ this delicate, accessible medium and use irreversible, destructive processes to reflect on the precariousness of the world we inhabit and the fragility of our life, dreams and ambitions.

Book artist and photographer Sonia Sawyer makes books blossom.