Sous la Diagonale

Folded in 2023 from a triangle of Arches watercolour paper

Model height: ca 30cm

Translating posture with as few folds as here is always difficult – even more so when one tries to draw on feminine curves.

However, once a good structure has been found, it becomes possible to toy with proportions and every change in proportion seems to affect the overall image more than expected, there is some kind of magic at play: as bodies come in a huge variety of shapes, the abstraction works within a relatively wide range of choices. I may equip the back of the sheet with actuators to make such variations dynamic in the future, but don’t hold your breath: ideas are plenty and time is finite…

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