Paper is key as a medium due to its qualities as an inherently sustainable material. Pippa Dyrlaga highlights paper’s innate fragility, creating organic patterns that emanate around a central tear, paying mind to the Japanese concept of kintsugi, meaning to make broken things beautiful.

There is no hippopotamus in this page at present. No art theory is complete without comments from incurable nut cases displaying aggressive incorrectness. The aim of this page is to present the fundamentals of science-art complexity in accessible way.