Video: Paper sculptures by Kirsten Hessenfeld: dreams on the brink of extinction
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
The works of Kirsten Hassenfeld evoke dreams of a dream world filled with bright light, royal luxury and … paper. Yes, the translucent sculptures of the author, which are rightly called "handmade extravaganza", are actually made of ordinary paper and only from it.
Since 1999, the artist has been using paper, the most common material, to create ornate sculptures with many details. These aerial works, defined by Kirsten herself as “dreams on the brink of extinction,” embody all of her fantasies of abundance, prosperity, luxury and wealth.
“When people first see my work, they often can't tell what they're made of,” Kirsten says with a smile. The sculptures look as if they were made of glass, crystal or even silk, but not paper. At the beginning of her creative career, the artist created works from plastic and scrap materials. It worked out well, but then Kirsten realized that she would make paper sculptures even better. Since then, she has not changed her favorite material.
For her sculptures, Kirsten takes tracing paper, corrugated or rag paper, which makes her works seem transparent and weightless. The artist spends thousands of hours cutting, folding, twisting and gluing paper elements together, but the result is worth it. Light and fragile, the sculptures carry a sense of ephemerality and seem more likely to be woven from light and air than made by human hands from ordinary paper.
Kirsten Hessenfeld was born in Albany (New York, USA). She received her BA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1994, and graduated from The University of Arizona in 1998 with an MA. The sculptor currently lives and works in New York. More of her amazing work can be seen here.
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