I think the wonderful paper sculptures of Sydney artist Anna-Wili Highfield are so visually arresting because they are at once suggestive and literal. A painting graduate of the National Arts School in Sydney, Highfield happened upon her chosen field of sculpture while pregnant and looking to create something for her unborn child. Each sculpture of cotton paper is pieced together with thread on a copper wire moulding. Highfield speaks of how she enjoys working with materials like paper and copper precisely because they cannot be manipulated too much. What she calls their "integrity" in having limitations of form which forces her work to be more process driven. “I leave the stitches and the threads on the surface so you can see. I find it intriguing when you can see how something is made… more intriguing than when it is hidden.”
You can see more of Highfield's work here.
