Radiant spirals of meticulously coiled paper unfurl across a deep umber ground in Xue Wang's Zen Paper Quilling, establishing an intricate mandala-like composition that commands immediate meditative…

Quilled paper coils in vibrant chromatic profusion cascade across the picture plane, establishing an undulating spatial field where thousands of tightly rolled paper cylinders in saturated hues…

Tightly coiled paper cylinders amassed in profuse chromatic abundance command the entire picture plane, their spiraled cross-sections revealing concentric bands of saturated hues spanning the…

Tightly coiled paper strips construct a frontal portrait in which bilateral symmetry governs the organizational schema, establishing a near-perfect vertical axis down the center of the composition…

Radiant paper coils spiral and cascade across the compositional field in an exuberant celebration of chromatic intensity and meticulous craft, establishing a symmetrical mandala-like structure…

Zen Paper Quilling by Xue Wang is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 Golden A' Design Award in Fine Arts and Art Installation Design Competition Category.

GoldFine Art· 2021

Zen Paper Quilling

by Xue Wang

Client: Dream Studio

Golden A' Design Award Winner in Fine Art Category

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The Design

About Zen Paper Quilling

Zen is a handmade paper quilling artwork made for wall decoration. Paper quilling is a technique in which coloured paper strips are curled and folded into circles, curves and wavy lines, then glued onto cardboard to create a three-dimensional surface. Zen is built from coloured paper strips one centimetre wide, rolled into large and small coils and arranged by size, shape and colour contrast. Many folding and curling methods were tested to obtain gradient colours in paper. The framed piece measures 300 x 400 x 15 mm.

The Recognition

About the Golden A' Design Award

Zen Paper Quilling is a Golden A' Design Award winner, an immensely prestigious recognition granted to first-rate, marvelous, and outstanding designs. Golden winners are exceedingly innovative, visionary, and glamorously dazzling creations that reflect the prodigy, wisdom, and prowess of their designers. Zen Paper Quilling is expected to be a highly praised, trendsetting, and monumental invention that delivers unprecedented value. This Golden A' Design Award-winning design is a spectacular, respected project that highly benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Zen Paper Quilling creates intense feelings of desire, evokes passion, encourages creativity, and fascinates us.

Image Analysis

Color Temperature: NeutralSymmetry: VerticalBackground: Left and Right

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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: This paper artwork made by hand, Xue used 1 cm wide colored paper strip, to make large and small rolls to draw lines with dots, and draw surfaces with lines, make dense paper rolls through a variety of permutations and combinations of size, shape, color contrast to achieve unexpected effect.
Dimensions & Packaging: The size of the illustration is 300 x 400 x 15 mm. It is used for print or wall decoration. This piece is framed in a hardwood frame with UV Protected glass.
Tags: Paper, quilling, handcraft, paper-art, design, handmade, paper roll, paper craft, paper art work
Production Technology: Use various long paper strips with a width of 1 cm to make various elements such as circles, curves, and wavy lines by curling and folding, and then paste them on cardboard to present the 3D effect of the work.
Design Challenge: Xue always try to develop a technique that has never been used by anyone before and creates different visual effects. Because paper is a material that cannot be mixed as easily as paints, so she need to try various folding and curling methods to achieve the desired color gradient and contrast effect.It is both tough and soft. she always challenge all the possibilities of paper, to complete seemingly impossible tasks.
Research: Paper is a material that is not easy to mix colors with each other. XUE tried various folding and curling methods to find a method that can express gradient colors, and finally made this rolled paper work break the paper's restrictions on gradient colors. A large number of bright colors are used to express the complexity of the world, and the calm faces under the colors represent the calm state of mind in the flashy world.
Inspiration: No matter how noisy and bustling the outside world is, XUE still hopes to keep her inner peace and create an artwork that can truly awaken people's self awareness. One day, she saw a picture of a woman smiling with her eyes closed, very peaceful and satisfied, XUE was touched by her expression, so she created this artwork to express a peaceful, calm attitude towards life and a strong and confident heart like Buddha, as if everything is about to sail, full of hope. It is a starting point, beginning, budding, and full of energy.
Project Duration: This work took three months to complete in Paris, and be invited to participate in UNESCO's activities in paris.
Operation Flow: Paper quilling is an art of paper rolls, which use colored long paper strips with a width of 1-3 centimeters to express the work by curling and folding. Curves, wavy lines, and circles are elements that often appear in XUE's works.
Patents: XUE WANG, 2020
Image Credits: Photographer:Clinton LIU