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Tahiti Pehrson creates moods with light, shadows and wildly intricate paper cuts. Inspired by patterns based on Guilloche, a system used to produce a complex series of geometrical patterns seen on currency, the California artist’s paper cut installations allow you to enter a magical world. . .enjoy.
That’s a LOT of Exacto knife blades!
Tahiti Pehrson’s website
More pictures on Flickr
Read an interview with the artist here
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Spring Break for daMuse
I’m taking the first week of April off to rest, relax and make art. Yup, you heard that right. After an extended period of time away from art making I’m back in the studio experimenting and revisiting ideas I was working on a couple of years ago. Very exciting! Not much to show yet (but if you know me you know I am smiling right now). I look forward to sharing what’s on my studio table as the weeks progress.
Picking up the love affair where I left off and still head over heels!
I’ll be back to my regular posts on DAM Monday, April 9th – you can catch me on Pinterest and Facebook until then. Have a magical week!
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In this fast moving, disposable world, keeping and collecting fragments from our experiences is important, but how can we do it without clutter, and with style? Clara Breen offers one option with her contemporary paper and sterling silver keepsake jewelry.
Keenly aware that we all have a pile of paper bits stashed somewhere that carry emotional content, Breen “uses fragments of found paper reflecting everyday experiences, combined with silver, to create bold strata-like constructions.”
She uses rivets to combine the materials, often corrugating the metal first.
She has been commissioned to create jewelry using treasured papers, including a paper ring for a couple who were moving to New Zealand. The ring was made using maps of their journey and fragments of love letters – the content was hidden inside the ring and only the couple knew what was inside.
Breen has begun to make framed, recycled paper compositions for the wall – quite lovely – can you imagine one of these made with paper mementos from your life?
Clara Breen’s website
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For years I have been fascinated by mathematician-turned-artists who delight us with their complex pleated tessellations and they often show up here on the pages of Daily Art Muse.
Towards A Torus
Dr. Goran Konjevod, a mathematics and computer science professor, creates lovely curving waves with paper using pleated tessellations. The abstract shapes form naturally by the tension of the paper “when multiple layers of paper are arranged according to regular or irregular patterns.”
Peeking Over
Big Yellow
Improvisation
Double Fluted
Slow Twist
Most of my pieces so far are abstract shapes naturally formed by the tension of the paper when multiple layers of paper are arranged according to regular or irregular patterns. In that sense, they could almost be said to be discovered, rather than invented or designed. In particular, the pieces shown in my pleat tessellation gallery pages have been developed from a single urform discovered by Paul Jackson.
Organic Origami, Goran Konjevod’s website
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Over the years I’ve shared the work of many origami artists – most often complex structures that require dozens if not hundreds of folds.
Buddha
Lazy Bear
Dinh Truong Giang follows a more minimal approach, wet folding watercolor paper to create these lovely sculptures. The work has a quiet grace that is utterly appealing.
Hippos
Polar Bear
Cats
The Kiss
DinhTruong Giang’s website
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Danish psaligraph artist Karen Bid Vejle creates many small paper cut art works, but it is the large scale installations that really highlight her talent and skill. What an endorsement for Fiskars scissors!
16.5 feet long!
“My heart and soul are at peace when I have the scissors in hand and the paper dances between the blades. If my scissors can manage to make you stop and wonder for just one instant, I will be happy.” Karen Bit Vejle
Karen’s paper cuts are made from one large, continuous piece of paper. She started 35 years ago cutting snowflakes and now cuts (with Fiskar scissors according to her website) the complex scenes she creates while listening to music. Extreme paper cutting indeed.
That’s a paper cut in the background – at the Royal Cafe.
Watch a video about this installation here
Karen Bit Vejle
Karen Bit Vejle’s website
More images on her Flickr site
