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He's done it! Professional origami artist Sipho Mabona has created a huge, life-sized elephant with just one sheet of paper.
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His most ambitious work to date, the elephant took Mabona and a team of over a dozen people four weeks to complete.
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Standing just over 3 meters high (or 10 feet tall), the work is now on display in the museum KKLB in Beromünster, Switzerland.
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Mabona financed the project through Internet-crowdfunding site Indiegogo where he raised over $26,000 from 631 funders.
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A webcam was installed that allowed people to watch the massive elephant take shape.
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The artist ran into some major challenges like figuring out how to spread a huge sheet of paper, measuring 15 meters by 15 meters (or 50 by 50 feet), in a hall, to transform the sheet of paper into the body of an elephant.
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Also, there were moments during the folding process, when he had to get the help of up to ten people to lift and fold the paper.
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Marvellous!
