Balsa Wood Sculpture - Texture

To emphasize the element of texture I constructed a small sculpture with buckets of textures stacked juxtaposing the textures of each other. 

Forming the paper buckets. Putting on a bottom to the buckets was no simple task.

Stacking the empty buckets.

 The idea for the contents of the buckets came from scraps of materials left over from the other two sculptures in the balsa wood mini sculpture series. By filling up the paper buckets with a lot of the same interestingly-textured materials, I achieve supreme emphasis on texture through repetition.

Bucket of splintered scrap balsa wood chips.

Bucket of rolled up and crumpled paper balls (took longer than one would expect).

Final bucket of thin paper slices, much like thin rice noodles.

The shapes of the objects within the buckets all contrast each other in size, shape, and material. In addition, they contrast the smooth paper outsides of the buckets and smooth, carefully-cut hard wooden base of the sculpture.