The Mind Creative SEPTEMBER 2014 | Page 39

The Mind Creative Please think again before you look with disgust at a toilet roll or even think of throwing away a half used one. Simply because you might be discarding and in fact, wasting a great tool for a “creative” mind. I am quite sure that you might be asking yourself a question (with raised eyebrows, of course): “Toilet paper rolls and creativity?” Yes you read that correctly - toilet rolls and creativity. It only goes to show what a creative mind is capable of and what can be achieved when imagination and creative skills join hands. Junior Fritz Jacquet is a Paris based artist, who has been intrigued with paper – of all kinds – since his childhood days. Later, when Jacquet mastered the “art” of crumbling, folding and bending used toilet rolls, he found a new avenue for his creative juices. Since then he has pushed the boundaries of imagination with this remarkable art form, through his constant experimentations. Jacquet uses a method that is quite simple. After forming a face by crumpling, folding and squashing a toilet roll, he applies a coat of s