Today's blog entry features a certain art process which I have the utmost admiration for. Paper crafting is something that requires precision, patience, a steady hand, and proper planning. Today we are specifically looking at Zim and Zou's brightly coloured paper craft creations! The main feature today is their work called Back to Basics, which includes highly colourful version of many retro technologies that many of us grew up with.
Before I continue I would like to link their website!
And this is the link to the project itself!
Back To Basics: http://zimandzou.fr/back-to-basics
This is a process video that they have made showing just a portion of the work they had to put into it.
Here are the two setting up the photoshoot
It is really amazing to see these creations before they are fully put together! You can really see the work put into it
The artistic duo stated that this project has taken about a year to be completed and it currently sits in the Chicago Design Museum. This is totally understandable even just by looking at their work. Look at the delicate detail on the camera, and all the delicate lines on the polaroid camera. The video even shows that it is all created with rulers and Xacto knives, not with some special equipment. The colourfulness of this project really brings forth something unique. It really brings out the details in these retro pieces which would normally be looked over with their natural colours. It also could symbolize the brightness that sometimes our nostalgia can bring to a memory, and how when we remember things, sometimes we make it more "colourful" than it actually was. That is another brilliant thing about this piece, Zim and Zou do not seem to discuss the meanings behind their pieces leaving it up to the viewers to ask whether there actually is a meaning or not.
As a person who has had to recently learn the process of cutting paper with a Xacto knife for a project, I can say with a little added experience, that Zim and Zou are truly incredible artists. Paper craft in general requires a great deal of forethought and precision. It is not a guessing game. Every cut, and every action is pre-conceived. This is because paper itself is not very moldable like clay, but instead you have to piece it together precisely, as such, if something is off it can be difficult to fix. It seems that most of the creative process is spent on the planning ahead of time. Now the cutting itself has to take a lot of patience and precision. It is very easy to stray with the knife. Another note: the artists are very ecofriendly, stating that they only use PEFC papers and that they use as much of their scraps as possible.
I absolutely adore bright colours! This is originally what attracted me to the work of Zim and Zou's paper craft. As to this work specifically, I love the detail put into this piece. I think it is absolutely amazing! No detail is missed and it is so accurate to the real thing. I also love the nostalgia that this piece brings me, and it makes me wish that these products actually existed in these colours. I also love paper craft, I love the sharpness of its creations. It usually has harsh shapes and lines that clearly define the parts of the creation. I love defined features so much, that my drawing style tends to lean to more definition of features than less. The attention to detail is astounding and inspiring, and is something that I am working towards having more of.
No comments:
Post a Comment