Artemesia papercut

It looks like I forgot to post on Friday.  I spent that day drawing and cutting out the artemesia leaves and was pretty happy with the way things were turning out.  I made a few more leaves this morning, filling in some gaps in leaf orientation and the overall shape of the cluster.

I'm not sure what the next step should be so I didn't glue them down.  The obvious thought is to tint each leaf lightly with watercolor, to bring them towards the silver-grey of the living plant.  (They are made of watercolor paper after all.)  But what I find most interesting about the leaves are the interactions between positive and negative space and the way the thickness of the multiple layers of paper moves a two dimensional material towards a three dimensional form.  I'd like to explore those ideas further, especially the second one.  It makes me wonder whether there is a different, thicker, material I could use than paper that still has enough flexibility to it to be able to conform to the contours of the varying levels beneath it.  I also makes me wonder what functional thing I could create using this slightly sculptural collage technique.