Falling Leaves

The first assignment for my furniture class was to create a sculpture using a pair of wooden chopsticks and its paper sleeve.

Using my exacto blade, I started cutting the chopsticks into rectangles of varied lengths.
I glued the pieces together in triangular leaf inspired shapes.

Using sandpaper, I soften some edges of the leaves but kept some hard edges to have more abstract looking leafs.

I cut the paper sleeve into long strips of different sizes. I took the strips and wrapped them around the leaves to mimic veins.

I then took the small leaves and glued them together in a seemingly random manner to give a feel of falling leaves. With the remaining pieces of paper I cut out leaf shapes and added them to add more familiar organic shapes.