The Ultimate Guide to Human Packing Tape Sculptures

This woman on a high swing, that guy on the roof, a ghostly woman holding a ghostly handbag leaning on a lamp post.

You can make sculptures like these, and your first attempts will likely turn out nearly as good as these significant public art works.

Because these sculptures use just two inexpensive materials: plastic packing tape and cling wrap.

Compared to traditional figurative sculpting materials — clay, stone, marble — this method is easier, cheaper, and lighter.

And you can have your first sculpture on the street tomorrow, using materials you probably have in your kitchen.

So let’s jump into this Ultimate Guide to Human Tape Sculptures — that’s what they are commonly called, by the way. Some people call them Packing Tape Sculptures.

Whatever. You’re going to see many, many examples of this approach, and lots of how-to, behind-the-scenes techniques: packing tape sculptures in progress.

There’s also an important warning at the end, so you can avoid unnecessary and unpleasant interactions with police and fire departments.

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Chapters
0:00 Intro to Human Packing Tape Sculptures
1:01 Packing Tape Sculptures Resources
2:09 The Packing Tape Svengali: Mark Jenkins
4:59 What to do with your Packing Tape Sculpture
6:19 Edgy & Wrong Packing Tape Sculptures
6:38 Warning! Warning!
7:52 Happy Ending
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The website for Boston’s Downtown Street Art Project: https://www.winteractive.org/
Btw, it’s up through April 14, 2024

Photos courtesy of Winteractive, Mark Jenkins, Max Rottersman.

Instructional packing tape videos:

Scotch Off the Roll contest.
   • Scotch Off the Roll Contest Judge Mark Jen...  

Sculpture student at Indiana University:
How to make sculpture out of packaging tape
   • How to make sculpture out of packaging tape  

Mark Jenkins Yarat MANIMALS 2013
Participate Baku Public Art Festival 2013.
   • Mark Jenkins Yarat MANIMALS 2013  
YARAT is a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to nurturing an understanding of contemporary art and creating a hub for artistic practice, research and thinking in the Caucasus, Central Asia and the surrounding region. Based in Baku, Azerbaijan,
https://www.yarat.az/

How to make a plastic baby
How Babies are Made
By Mark Jenkins
   • How Babies Are Made  

Video from a publisher of a book about Mark Jenkins
   • Mark Jenkins  Go Figure! from Gestalten on...  
https://us.gestalten.com/

Behind the Scenes with Mark Jenkins | From Here to Nowhere
   • Behind the Scenes with Mark Jenkins | "Fro...  

Instructibles
How to Make a Human Tape Sculpture
https://www.instructables.com/How-to-...

Make:
How-To: Packing Tape Sculptures
https://makezine.com/article/craft/ho...

The 2 “Creative Teacher” Packing Tape Sculpture videos
   • Packing Tape Sculpture Demonstration  
   • Packing tape sculptures  


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