Paper pulp is processed in many different ways to create paper that can be folded, cut and shrunk. These explorations have led to a number of three dimensional works. The undulating form of “Pirates“, for example, is an experiment using a highly beaten abaca fiber that shrinks, contrasted with stripes of a mixed cotton fiber that does not shrink. “Tigers on Mars” uses a slightly beaten grey abaca pulp that makes a foldable paper laminated behind the stiff cast and poured cotton and abaca pigmented surface layers
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