Switzerland-based origami artist Sipho Mabona folded this life-sized elephant from a single sheet of paper (50 feet x 50 feet).
The white elephant stands 10 feet tall and weighs a whopping 250 kg.
Simultaneously quiet and powerful, the towering creature proves, as the artist himself says, “there is no limit in origami”.
Mabona financed the project through Internet-crowdfunding site Indiegogo where he raised over $26,000 from 631 funders. A webcam was installed that allowed people to watch the massive elephant take shape. The artist ran into some major challenges like figuring out how to spread a huge sheet of paper, measuring 15 meters by 15 meters (or 50 by 50 feet), in a hall, to transform the sheet of paper into the body of an elephant. Also, there were moments during the folding process, when he had to get the help of up to ten people to lift and fold the paper.
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