{"id":90381,"date":"2013-02-15T12:39:26","date_gmt":"2013-02-15T17:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.immortalitymedicine.tv\/anatomy\/mind-bending-paper-sculptures-by-li-hongbo.php"},"modified":"2024-08-17T17:22:55","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T21:22:55","slug":"mind-bending-paper-sculptures-by-li-hongbo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/anatomy\/mind-bending-paper-sculptures-by-li-hongbo.php","title":{"rendered":"Mind Bending Paper Sculptures by Li Hongbo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/54967505\">Li Hongbo &ndash; Pure White Paper<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/dominikmerschgallery\">Dominik Mersch Gallery<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11683\" alt=\"Li Hongbo Pure White Paper at Dominik Mersch Gallery (5)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.immortalitymedicine.tv\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/e6be615d02_Li-Hongbo-Pure-White-Paper.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"279\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p><p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11682\" alt=\"Li Hongbo Pure White Paper at Dominik Mersch Gallery (6)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.immortalitymedicine.tv\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/b522dd7dc0_Li-Hongbo-Pure-White-Paper-3.jpg\" width=\"550\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p><p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11685\" alt=\"Li Hongbo Pure White Paper at Dominik Mersch Gallery (3)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.immortalitymedicine.tv\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/b522dd7dc0_Li-Hongbo-Pure-White-Paper-SKULL.jpg\" width=\"550\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p><p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11687\" alt=\"Li Hongbo Pure White Paper at Dominik Mersch Gallery (1)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.immortalitymedicine.tv\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/b522dd7dc0_Li-Hongbo-Pure-White-Paper-4.jpg\" width=\"550\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p><p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11686\" alt=\"Li Hongbo Pure White Paper at Dominik Mersch Gallery (2)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.immortalitymedicine.tv\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/9dfc3b6790_Li-Hongbo-Pure-White-Paper-2.jpg\" width=\"550\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p><p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11684\" alt=\"Li Hongbo Pure White Paper at Dominik Mersch Gallery (4)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.immortalitymedicine.tv\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/9dfc3b6790_Li-Hongbo-Pure-White-Paper-5.jpg\" width=\"550\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p><p>Simply jaw dropping fluid paper sculptures by Beijing-based artist <a title=\"Li Hongbo\" href=\"http:\/\/www.whiterabbitcollection.org\/artists\/li-hongbo\/\">Li Hongbo<\/a>&nbsp;who has quite an affinity to paper. His fascination with the flexible nature of paper began with the traditional Chinese &ldquo;honeycomb&rdquo; paper toys used for decorations. He took one apart and realized,&nbsp;&ldquo;<em>It&rsquo;s really quite simple. Yet the flexibility in terms of shape and properties is amazing.<\/em>&rdquo; And so, he began making paper sculptures by gluing tens of thousands of sheets together with carefully placed strips of glue and then carving the paper blocks into&nbsp;sculptures.<\/p><p>The paper sculptures can be manipulated through stretching, bending, and warping, turning seemingly solid structures into phantom-like beings.<\/p><p>&nbsp;<\/p><p>[spotted by medical illustrator <a title=\"David Cheney\" href=\"http:\/\/streetanatomy.com\/cheneybiomedart.com\">David Cheney<\/a>]<\/p><p>&nbsp;<\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.immortalitymedicine.tv\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/9dfc3b6790_v3-bMA3wHu4.\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\">Source:<br><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/streetanatomy\/OQuC\/~3\/v3-bMA3wHu4\/\">http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/streetanatomy\/OQuC\/~3\/v3-bMA3wHu4\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Li Hongbo &ndash; Pure White Paper from Dominik Mersch Gallery on Vimeo.Simply jaw dropping fluid paper sculptures by Beijing-based artist Li Hongbo&nbsp;who has quite an affinity to paper. His fascination with the flexible nature of paper began with the traditional &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/anatomy\/mind-bending-paper-sculptures-by-li-hongbo.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[577281],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anatomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90381"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}