Using the building verse of "The House that Jack Built, " a farm girl creates a piñata of papier mâché with the help of a boy and the animals on the farm.
One (they are all titled "Homespun") brings together eccentric curved twin elements, each like a bulbous elbow pipe joint, of pink gingham papier mâché with a round thistle tail and, at the other end, a soft knobby protuberance covered in bright red flocking.
It was black, with gold trim, evidently of papier-mache, with an elongated dog-like snout.
Papier-mâché, with its quick and bold effects, was widely adopted both in the East and West for carnival and votive figures and for a multitude of toys.
You can paint over the top of the papier-mâché with acrylic paint after it has completely dried.
The raft has a papier mache dragon with flashing blue eyes as a figurehead.
Older gentleman holding reins and wearing a papier mâché skirt with legs attached, so when he walks it looks like he's riding a giant spider?
As well as making luridly coloured, aluminium structures with expressive surfaces and open compositions, he produced more monumental, organic forms out of papier mache spattered with paint.
Collage may have started with papier collé, but its logic has since exploded into every realm, including postmodern architecture and culinary experimentation, resulting in things like chocolate bars laced with bacon or mushrooms.
There's a sense of excitement in the air and in Ubud and the surrounding villages I've seen people crafting huge, ugly ogoh-ogoh papier mache effigies, with bulging eyes, fangs and hairy backs representing evil spirits.
