Origami Portraits
While this awesome series showcases California-based artist Marc Fichou’s superior folding skills, it digs deeper conceptually. In his own words, Fichou explains that “intention here is to create a piece where the image cannot be separated from its referent, thus creating a visual link between past and present.” Essentially, each origami is superimposed over the folded paper that was used to make it.
Via marcfichou.com
Fantastic art work.Imagination at it’s best.Jalal
[…] The level of detail he achieves is really quite exceptional. Check out some past origami posts (here and […]
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