It was fun tearing, crumpling, and slashing bits of paper. It was an interesting exercise that demonstrated quite usefully the many different ways you can give the impression of disitegration.
A torn paper cross, showing further disintegration at each stage.
My fingers were getting very sore until I discovered that it was easier to use a needle to fray the fabric!
Making shapes appear thinner and less solid.
Multiplying the shape. The 'negative' ares produced a pattern of star/cross shapes. A prominent pattern was also formed by the centre square of the crosses.