Nine-faced Jar
It was time to make another of these, so I did. Folded from an uncut rectangle of foil-backed paper, two edges glued to form a cylinder. 9, because I wanted the viewer to see about 3 faces at once. (And because 8 is a boring number.) Known inputs. A pot with faces I glimpsed at the Art Institute of Chicago in the 1990s, probably from bronze or ceramics; those little figures adorning portals to cathedrals, which from a distance look like pencil-marks or charcoal scraped on paper; David Huffman’s beautiful Tower Form. Thoughts about how the figures in a bas-relief are in process of freeing themselves from full immersion in their background (as in painting) to full independence in our world (as in sculpture)---and so thrive in this half-subservient state. Studies of face-making folds over the years, seeking always the minimum necessary lines . And technical investigations into curved folding. About just the latter, a few words. Apart from the pretty shape, I am showing off two kinds of ...