Cloud City | Makerie studio and photographer Luke Kirwan
The New York –based paper artists the Makerie studio collaborated with the London-based photographer Luke Kirwan and produced this cloud city which is an amazing project inspired by Moroccan architecture , decorations carved and sculptured into buildings and places that look almost impossible to make.
Courtesy of Luke Kirwan.
Several detailed complex patterns and layered iridescent paper were used to produce these weightless-looking buildings. Every structure has something inside it, you’ll see a fountain, a flowering tree and more. It’s the story of a floating patterned city. Kirwan used hazy and dreamy colored backgrounds to show the complexity of the details, also his way in exposing the light showed realistic scenes.
Courtesy of Luke Kirwan.
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