Eli Brozenich is already well known to many of our students – he was the Visual Arts award winner in 2020. his latest photography project is based around Abstract paper objects – constructed by himself using a wide range of at times very complex folding techniques.

This project consisted of dozens of different paper sculptures all ahnd made by Eli, which he then displayed and photographed in the studio under various lighting conditions. I will let Eli explain in his own words a little bit more about his inspirations for this project:

“For this final assessment I want to look at creating paper sculptures that resemble and take inspiration from the lines we find in Abstract and Architectural photography. For a while now I have been obsessed with making thousands of small paper flowers. Once I started to get better at this I started to experiment with making my own designs. I was able to pick up the art of folding quickly and it intrigued me further by seeing the work of Gorran Konjevod. His work looks at…..​

From this is started to build and fold bigger pieces of paper that had interesting colours and textures to it. The thickness of papers was also something I was fascinated by. Using heavier card sticks was difficult to fold and using much thinner pages would make the folds tare quickly. While I looked at this I found the artist Isamu Noguchi who uses thin but durable paper to create lighting sculptures.  ​

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Looking at these creations and the design it promotes I started to look at how folding paper, and different size paper can lead the outcomes to look like architecture. “

For primary research Eli attended a gallery exhibition titled ‘The Wave’ in London. This show was perfect as it directly linked with the themes of Eli’s project:

The final project sketchbook is almost 100 pages long and is extremely detailed, informative and well-presented. Eli frequently reflects on his work, and that of others, and always gives a clear and honest evaluation of what he is seeing.

His final images proved to be so popular, and commercial they were chosen to be used as the basis for the front cover of our annual school review book, as well as in various other promotional materials. We are such big fans of his work in the Visual Arts faculty that we are very proud to display his fantastic images printed out to a large A2 format and displayed in the way Eli intended.