Paper Sculpture by Samuelle Green: Nimbus

Curled black paper, hundreds of pieces of it, bunched together like a thundercloud getting ready.

Nimbus is a paper sculpture by Samuelle Green, from the United States. It is paper. Paper sculptors often build volume through repetition, rolling or folding many small pieces and massing them until the material reads as something else entirely. Here charcoal-black paper is curled into small cones and petals, packed closely into two swelling lobes, one large and one smaller. The edges catch the light in pale slivers, giving the dark mass depth and movement. It is 24 inches wide and 42 high.

A storm cloud that will never rain on anything.