Creating a 3D Object

My object was to be based on the work by Rowan Mersh, and also the ideas of growth and delicate style of Junko Mori's sculptures (http://www.junkomori.com go look, they're beautiful!)

I wanted the growth idea to be shown both through the plant like paper cut design of paintwork over the form, but also from the curling shape. I found it was too small a scale to fully get this idea across, so I altered my design.

Medium section, purple "fruit".

Central section, blue "fruit" (cold, decay, death, etc) and slightly more angular paper cut.

All three together. The red-to-blue thing came from Mersh's use of black-to-white tones creating further depth in his sculptures.

Please excuse my hand.

I think that I could have secured each section slightly better, but it quite like the idea of the piece being diagonal rather than straight. As a functional thing you could probably make some pretty swanky lamp shades out of this.

(All pictures taken by me)