Things made of paper

http://www.tappi.org/paperu/all_about_paper/products.htm

This link is really useful for me because it is an exhaustive list of  everyday objects made of paper .These objects have the potential of being  transformed into pieces of art.Whenever art is made from everyday objects, the viewer brings this experience into their own private sphere .Upon seeing something familiar, they view it from a renewed perspective. Uncovering small metamorphosis in familiar objects is a psychological exercise, which enables you to turn routine into moments of significance, again making us more aware of the indefinite alterations in our surroundings.

I wish to produce something decorative with paper .When the spectator first see a  beautiful object he steps closer to notice something disturbing.  This mixture of contrast produces a conflict in the mind and that is the key to it all. I want to create venus fly traps for viewers to get tangled in.

Two artists who transform everyday objects into pieces of art are Yuken Teruya and Justine Smith. -:

In Yuken Teruya’s work, the discarded becomes the site of poetic transformation. Shopping bags – in some ways the emblematic item of rampant consumerism, one-use receptacles quickly ditched – are placed within the gallery at a ninety-degree angle, their ends to the wall, becoming peepholes for one viewer at a time. Their dark interiors are speckled with light from holes cut into the bag’s paper surface; the shape of the hole is that of a full-grown tree, so the bag becomes both stage (with its own lighting) and source of imagery.

MacDonalds

MacDonalds

Rainforest

Louis Vitton

Justine Smith's work is politically charged and deals with the face that a simple,decorative, piece of paper can be a conduit of power and violence .She uses bank notes from different countries as her only medium to shape incongrouous objects like bouncing dogs,hand grenades, guns or poppy flowers. 

Poppies

Instrument of State-Iran

Instruments of State-Myanmar

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