I find this work extraordinary - simply wheat paste, tracing paper and occasionally - actetate.
http://www.marybuttondurell.net/
'This body of work uses only tracing paper and wheat paste as material. At first glance these pieces appear to be built onto a rigid wire frame, however, the process is much more organic and the structure is created from my own hand building.
Individual cells or cones that comprise most
of the pieces are first formed over moulds of various shapes and sizes
and then joined together using wheat paste
cell by cell.
Additional layers of paper and paste are then added for strength and reinforcement which creates the net-like structure around the individual cells.
The translucent quality of the tracing paper allows light to play a significant and dynamic role in the work. In combination with the physical structure of the work, this translucent quality creates an interior as well as exterior perspective.
In
certain light, however, the translucency of the paper appears to have
the visual characteristics of more solid materials, such as oyster shell
or marble.
Due partially to the inherent physical aspects of
these materials, this body of work has evolved both in process and
form along decidedly organic lines.
These shapes have often been
described as biomorphic abstractions or shapes resembling cellular
membranes - ethereal bodies and the skeletal structures of underwater
organisms.'
http://www.marybuttondurell.net/
'This body of work uses only tracing paper and wheat paste as material. At first glance these pieces appear to be built onto a rigid wire frame, however, the process is much more organic and the structure is created from my own hand building.
Additional layers of paper and paste are then added for strength and reinforcement which creates the net-like structure around the individual cells.
The translucent quality of the tracing paper allows light to play a significant and dynamic role in the work. In combination with the physical structure of the work, this translucent quality creates an interior as well as exterior perspective.
Due partially to the inherent physical aspects of
these materials, this body of work has evolved both in process and
form along decidedly organic lines. 
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