What is it? An American football lined up in front of a firing squad?
Actually it started out as an attempt to pay homage to Yayoi Kusama’s (草間 彌生) polka-dotted pumpkins, using pieces of a palm leaf. I couldn’t quite figure out how to make a pumpkin. So it ended up as an olive, or American football.
It is made up of 6 slices of a palm leaf, with irregular holes cut into them. The challenge is to cut the 6 slices into the right convex outline, then to bend them into the right curved shape, and finally glue them together. It took many trials before I could make it work.
One of my most satisfying pieces.
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