After years of trial and error, the 38-year-old Chinese artist perfected his method of layering thousands of sheets of paper and carving them into busts, replicas of nature and human forms.
To make his sculptures Li uses a stencil to paste glue in narrow strips across large pieces of paper that he then sticks together to form blocks of 500.
He stacks the blocks to the desired height - an average bust is over ten blocks or 5,000 sheets of paper high - then cuts, chisels and sands the large block just as if it were a piece of soft stone.
Music:
"Morning Sun" by Tom Quick.
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