How to Paper Plane

How to Paper Plane is a photographic project that celebrates playfulness as a critical and subversive tool. In an age marked by hyper-automation, sensory disconnection, and the abandonment of individual responsibility, this work offers a pause: a return to handmade creation, shared imagination, and play as a radical gesture.

The work sees play not as escapism but as a conscious method of resistance in a present saturated with crisis. Paper planes, ephemeral, fragile, symbolic objects, become poetic tools to reopen the space of possibility.

Childhood is not evoked merely through nostalgia but as a foundational space for collectivity. Folding a paper plane, launching it, picking it up to try again – these simple, repeated gestures, shared in playgrounds, plazas, and homes, form a relational pedagogy of play.

This project reclaims that shared memory, that spontaneous community generated through play, where there are no hierarchies or productivity goals, only the desire to imagine together. In a time when the social fabric is fractured by digital isolation and a constant drive for efficiency, returning to these moments of collective invention becomes a political affirmation. How to Paper Plane proposes a model of resistance rooted in collaboration, in the transmission of simple knowledge, and in the capacity to build shared worlds from almost nothing.

Each image in the series presents a unique paper-folding proposal, embedded in surreal, handcrafted sets. This emphasis on the manual is an ethical statement: in a digitised world where the boundaries of experience blur, returning to paper and to slowness is a way to reconnect with what is real.

How to Paper Plane raises questions about belonging, imagination, and aesthetic responsibility. What kind of worlds do we need to imagine in order to inhabit our own? And can the act of play become a practice of care and transformation?

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