To artist Marianne Eriksen Scott-Hansen, making tissue paper flowers isn't just a craft, but "paper couture." As she sees it, she is weaving living flowers together from paper until the grow so large that they can fill rooms.
Scott-Hansen describes her creative process to My Modern Met:
Numerous little individual parts that make up a whole, from cell to organism,” she says, “micro to macro. Contrasts, symmetry, harmony. By my hand, the paper is returned to the organic material from which it originates. It is given the tactility and texture to resemble wood, plant parts, papyrus. I treat the paper firmly as it were rope, bark, branches. Or delicately like dried grass or porous petals.