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Danish artist Peter Callesen creates these extraordinary papercraft sculptures from single sheets of white A4. Sez he:

“By taking away all the information and starting from scratch using the blank white A4 paper sheet for my creations, I feel I have found a material that we are all able to relate to, and at the same time the A4 paper sheet is neutral and open to fill with different meaning. The thin white paper gives the paper sculptures a frailty that underlines the tragic and romantic theme of my works.
The paper cut sculptures explore the probable and magical transformation of the flat sheet of paper into figures that expand into the space surrounding them. The negative and absent 2 dimensional space left by the cut, points out the contrast to the 3 dimensional reality it creates, even though the figures still stick to their origin without the possibility of escaping. In that sense there is also an aspect of something tragic in many of the cuts.”

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(Hat tip: Aaron McAllorum)


Artist Annie Vought from North Oakland creates these eye-wateringly finely-crafted pieces by first handwriting text onto large sheets, then removing the white paper in between the letters with an extremely sharp knife. Sez she:

I believe handwritten records are fragments of individual histories– expressions of self that very much bring forth the truth of our inner lives. In the penmanship, word choice, and spelling the author is revealed in spite of him/herself. A letter is physical confirmation of who we were at the moment it was written, or all we have left of a person or a period of time.

Interview: Annie Vought (In the Make)

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httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBec95Mv8G8&feature=player_embedded

An amazing stop-motion papercraft animation made by Andersen M Studios for the New Zealand Book Council.

Whether it’s pure cut-and-fold or a combination of Photoshop and CGI is all in the eye of the beholder.

Either way, it is somewhat booktastic.

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