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Paper cuts as art.

 
 
Poke it with a stick
20:35 / 09.08.06
Peter Callesen, a Danish artist, produces fantastically ornate artworks using deceptively simple techniques. They're really quite beautiful - his site's here:

http://www.oncotton.co.uk/peter/index.html

And here's an example of his work.

 
 
Jack Vincennes
21:13 / 09.08.06
These are lovely Ursula -thanks for posting the link, I've not seen those before! Especially liked the A4 work, the river and skeleton in particular. It's beautiful and delicate, without feeling at all fussy. I'll have a proper look at the rest of the site tomorrow, and no doubt post more then...
 
 
Ticker
18:17 / 12.08.06
those are truly stunning.
 
 
Olulabelle
22:24 / 12.08.06
Did you see the Tall Tower of Babel? It's beautiful. How does he make them, cut them? With a little pair of scissors?
 
 
Poke it with a stick
11:05 / 13.08.06
Cutting and folding, with a bit of glue for the more large-scale structures, seems like.
I think that the thing that gets me is his use of the negative shapes and "waste" produced by the process...

And I like his take on what he's doing too:

"Most recent I have started to make white paper cuts/sculptures inspired by fairytales and romanticism exploring the relationship between two and three dimensionality, between image and reality. I find the materialization of a flat piece of paper into a 3D form as an almost magic process - or maybe one could call it obvious magic, because the process is obvious and the figures still stick to their origin, without the possibility of escaping. In that sense there is as well an aspect of something tragic in most of the cuts."
 
  
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