handcrafting — VISUALOUNGE

Illustrations by Helen Ahpornsiri

A heron, fish, elephant, frog and koala, each assembled from pressed leaves and petals by Helen Ahpornsiri.

Haruka Misawa turns pencil shavings into paper flowers, shown as a grid and beside the pencil and sharpener that made them.

German artist Menja Stevenson sewed clothes from city bus and train upholstery — including an outfit cut from Stuttgart's bus seating.

Takahiro Kondo's black ceramic heads are crusted in glassy beads and metallic drips, finished with his gintekisai overglaze.

Wintergatan's Martin Molin has built two new instruments — an elaborate paper-tape music box and a theremin-like device — and performed on both.

Dave Hall drives dozens of interconnected parts from a single crank, taking simple wooden automata to an absurd level of complexity.

Michael Tatom's cast-metal animal rings grew out of stone carving, an obsession with muscle definition and a home studio.

Jen Stark layers hundreds of cut components into spiralling, rainbow-coloured vortexes that read as portals.

Puppet designer Barnaby Dixon spent eighteen months building a hand puppet that can point, grasp objects and appear to talk.

Since 2005 Lori Nix and Kathleen Gerber have built dioramas of a world after people — and a short film shows the fabrication behind each photograph.

Ali Alamedy spent nine months rebuilding Charles Miner's early-1900s photography studio in 1:12 scale — a study of how daylight was managed.

Benoit Jammes makes handmade artwork from cassette tapes — the obsolete medium as raw material.