Japanese artist Chie Hitotsuyama uses the waste newspaper to create stunningly realistic animal sculptures from Japanese macaques to lizards, crocodile to rhinoceros, etc. She rolls, twists, and binds pieces of wet newspaper densely by hand, adjusts the contours and gradations of sculptures with the colored print.
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