The very first inspiration, which I got, is butterfly’s wings. When the butterfly fly，it need to wave its wings. So If every steps of wing’s movement has been tracked ，then a beautiful pattern has been taken on. And I wanted to record the path of the butterfly’s wing when it fly. So that means I need a large amount of same patterns, Rather than cut it one by one, I tend to to cut it just once. Therefore，laser cutting is a good choice . Because I tried laser cutting before and know how it works. Then I bought a books got 20 blank pages, I was going cut the book directly then spread out each pages.

Also I think my work is very similar to Noriko Amber s works. her work is primarily created by cutting precise holes in books, magazines and other varieties of bound paper. these cuts result in artwork which resembles topographic maps. some of the pieces are sculptural, keeping the original book form, while others are more like relief sculptures. in the first sight of her workfs，i think it is a laser cut or CNC, but the most interesting thing about this work, that it is a free hand cut paper.

And Noriko Ambe comments on his work, this is my life work. I individually cut single sheets of paper by free-hand and stack them together. The work consists of positive or negative shapes. I am trying to embody relationships among humans, time and nature.”

first step that I begun to create this work is draw a butterfly’s wings, then I use illustrator to trace that drawing and save as‘illustrator’then I brought to school and cut it. Because the material is paper so it haven’t took long time. Last time I used plastic ，it spent 2 hour to finished .

when I spread each pages out. It looked like that. It is exactly what I expected.

Next step, I need to do the digital model by rhino. Firstly I inserted the drawing that I made as background, and traced it using the line tool. Then i turned the lines to surface. Finally used the array to created the final form. And I changed the color to translucent .

Front view

right view

top view

   

  when I finished these process by making that piece of work，I almost experienced everything that I experienced last term. Such as using rhino，illustrator，laser cutting. But not only knew how to using these tools，but also investigated how pattern can be used in 3d work and tried different materials. And played around and make something different.