All three papers in this wrap came from the purchase of cut flowers. The yellow and green material is some kind of thin felted fiber.
After wrapping the box with the white and purple vine paper, I began folding the yellow paper over onto itself, making it into a ribbon-like wrapping band. The paper had slices and tears in it from the way the florists cut it to embrace the cut flowers. So I had to use little pieces of transparent tape to stabilize it during folding.
The green paper is actually two fragments joined by tape. The tape join was hidden by sliding the green band under the yellow.
I chose the offset positioning of the bands to add a dash of asymmetry to what is ultimately a very traditional wrap. And then I made a quick drawing of the recipient’s initials; I cut that design out of black paper. I fastened it with rolled tape to the yellow band, positioning it uphill from the bands’ intersection.
This wrap represents the enrollment of typical throw-away materials into an easy interpretation of traditional wrapping.