Li Hongbo 李洪波

As paper was wood I thought I would include some examples of Chinese artist Li Hongbo's incredible honeycombed paper structures.

“Paper—you can never predict what it will become in the end.” Li Hongbo 李洪波

Li Hongbo

Li Hongbo sculpts in paper that has been painstakingly stuck together in honeycomb formation until it is a dense block like balsa wood, he then carves this compressed honeycomb into figures that can then be stretched and contorted. Li Hongbo is currently exhibiting at the 18th biennally of  Sydney where his latest works are sculpted weapons made in the same way as his figures but from coloured papers. (thank you)