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The undulating curves draw the eye into their sinuous patterns. The almost alien-looking ripples resemble a strange deep-sea organism or a wind-carved desert on a foreign planet.
Daniele Papuli started working with paper by chance, after taking a workshop in Berlin while studying at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, in Milan.
The truth is both more mundane and more mind-blowing: These mesmerizing structures are sculptures made of paper, created by Italian artist Daniele Papuli.
Papuli has been making paper sculptures since 1995, but, he told The Huffington Post, he'd been working toward the same effect in more classical materials for some time.
"I tried many different materials such as stone, wood, plaster, unconsciously following a route, a continual passage from gravity to the lightness of the form, from the solidity of the matter to its ductility," he said. "The volumes grew thinner and thinner [...] at last I reached paper, paper handling."
While sculpture more traditionally involves taking material away to reveal an artwork within stone or clay, working with paper, for Papuli, means transforming the two-dimens