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Artist: Robert Rickli

Japanese Artist Tightly Rolls Newspaper To Create Incredibly Realistic Animal Sculptures

For most us, newspapers are for reading. But for Chie Hitotsuyama, newspapers serve a whole different purpose. Because as you can see below, the Japanese artist doesn’t use them to catch up on the sport and gossip. She turns them into incredibly realistic animal sculptures instead.

She makes them by densely rolling, twisting, and binding pieces of wet newspaper. The process is done entirely by hand and she even uses the colored print to enhance the contours and gradations of her subjects. From red-faced Japanese macaques to languishing lizards and even a giant dozing rhinoceros, Chie creates the most stunning sculptures from something that most of us simply throw in the trash. It’s a brilliant way of turning bad news into something more positive. Facebook

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sign of Leo

Bartholomeus Anglicus, De proprietatibus rerum (French translation), Ahun 1480

Sun and Moon

Vincent of Beauvais, Le Mirouer historial (French translation of Speculum historiale), Paris 1463