Making Art Out of Snack Boxes

Twitter user @02ESyRaez4VhR2l (or 空箱職人 はるきる) is an artist who posts his creations made from empty Japanese snack boxes. His creations are what Japanese call "kirigami", a method of cutting paper to make sometimes very elaborate designs. Sort of like when we used to cut paper snowflakes back in grade.

Recently, along with the LEGO Exhibit in PARCO Shinsaibashi, the artists had put some of his creations on display.

I was able to get a discount through my LEGO Exhibit ticket to see some of his pieces in person.

The amount of details that goes into some of his work is absolutely breathtaking. I don't often enjoy the traditional art forms, but I do enjoy stuff like this (and of course, digital art).

You can see most if not all of his creations on his twitter account, but here are my photos of them for maybe a different angle?

It's really cool how the artist really strategically uses very specific parts of the box to get a certain colour or feature to match what's needed for the build.

Like this one above, the cookie was used for the moon that's hanging.

This was one of my favourites. Not only is it my favourite snack, but the elaborate details on this one with the mast is really cool in my opinion.

Here's a couple more of my favourites:

The cup noodles and the pringles one got the most attention since they are sort of the artist's signature creations.

My BF and I really liked this robot:

Here are a couple of other ones: