Rogan Brown’s paper sculptures of cells and microbes are an exploration and representation of “natural organic forms both mineral and vegetal.”

I look for patterns and repeated motifs that run through natural phenomena at different scales, from the microscopic to the macroscopic, from individual cells to large scale geological formations.

I am inspired in part by the tradition of scientific drawing and model making, and particularly the work of artist-scientists such as Ernst Haeckel. But although my approach involves careful observation and detailed “scientific” preparatory drawings these are always superseded by the work of the imagination; everything has to be refracted through the prism of the imagination, estranged and in some way transformed.

Each sculpture is painstakingly crafted and the process is (obviously!) time consuming and labor intensive. However, all this work is “an essential element not only in the construction but also in the meaning of each piece.”

The finished artefact is really only the ghostly fossilized vestige of this slow, long process of realisation. I have chosen paper as a medium because it captures perfectly that mixture of delicacy and durability that for me characterizes the natural world.

You can see more Rogan’s beautiful paper sculptures here.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
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