Sure, pop-up birthday cards are nice enough, be they’re nothing compared to Peter Dahmen’s amazingly beautiful and complex paper sculptures. You can watch how Dahmen creates these masterpieces in the video above and watch some of his creations as they are being unfolded below.

German paper artist Peter Dahmen creates pop-up paper sculptures that open to reveal astonishingly complex forms. Dahmen talks about his artistic process and demonstrates a number of his beautiful sculptures in the video “The Magic Moment” by filmmaker Christopher Helkey. Dahmen posts videos of his sculptures on his YouTube channel.

[Christopher Helkey | Peter Dahmen on Youtube | Via LS]