Origami artist Sipho Mabona plans to fold 15m by 15m sheet of paper into life-size elephant

Professional origami artist Sipho Mabona is hoping to push - or should that be fold - the envelope of his art form by creating a life-size elephant from a single piece of paper measuring 15 metres square.

The extraordinary work of art requires four people working for two weeks to turn the two dimensional sheet into a three metre tall structure.

Over more than a month, Swiss-based Mr Mabona, 33, has painstakingly planned the intricate pattern, which details where exactly and in what order, to fold the paper.

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