With the help of a team up to 10 people, professional origami artist Sipho Mabona took 4 weeks to create a life-sized elephant origami sculpture from a single 15m x 15m sheet of paper, the successfully completed white elephant is 3m tall and weighs roughly 250 kg. Sipho Mabona’s project got financial aid of over $26,000 through crowdfunding site Indiegogo, which is exhibiting at the KKLB museum in Beromünster, Switzerland.
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