I’m back after three weeks away – I have emails to answer, phone calls to make, pictures to upload…it’s going to be a busy day.

[nonmember]This archived post is for Members Only. Click here to become a member or to get a one day pass. If you are a member, please login to view the post. [/nonmember][private_archives]While I’m getting organized take a look at Toronto artist Cybele Young’s finely detailed paper sculptures. Using Japanese washi paper – much of it printed with the artist’s copperplate etchings – Young sculpts snippets of domestic life.  She is captivated by the fleeting moments of the every day, and manages to bring a childlike whimsy into a body of work that is adult and highly skilled. Poetic. Click on the images to see them full sized.

Shape Image, Japanese paper

Where’s My List?, Japanese Paper, 7 x 2 x 1

But I’m Looking This Way, Japanese paper, 6 x 7 x 1

I Thought I Heard Something, Japanese Paper, 8 x 7 x 2

I Found It Over There, Japanese Paper, 8 x 10 x 1

Neurartic has a fascinating post about the artist – an excerpt appears below – read the full post here.

“She depicts quotidian objects in odd juxtaposition: Chestnut husks on a milk carton, a shopping cart rising skyward courtesy of a hot air balloon, a view camera pointing at a circa 1975 office chair on wheels. These are familiar tactics to the mnemonist who is able to remember long lists of unrelated items by making visual images that link them together a very personal and idiosyncratic fashion. The artist is building and rebuilding an internal lexicon. We viewers are invited to read along with her and make our own connections. The work comes from that place where where episodic memory meets semantic memory.”

This video is a compilation of 39 Japanese paper sculptures “individually animated through articulation before framed as one piece.”

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If you’ve been reading DAM for any length of time you know that I have a weakness curves and swirls. In this collection of paper pendants Lydia Hirte manages to give us a different take on the curving line. Clamping and strengthening stacked pieces of card stock allows Hirte to create contorted shapes that flow and bend, suggesting subtle, graceful movement.

Not satisfied with the results of the paintings he was trying to create based on the microscopic viral world, Charles Clary decided to move away from the two dimensional medium and experiment with other materials. He eventually discovered that he could achieve the desired results by hand-cutting and layering paper shapes. Using a paper made specifically for scrapbooking, he cuts up to 4,000 sheets of paper and 14,000 polystyrene spacers for each vividly colored installation. Clary’s intent is for the reliefs to look like they are growing, out of control, contaminating surfaces and taking over the space they inhabit. Mission accomplished.

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Double Diddle Evisceration, detail, layered paper installation

Codastic Infestation

Untitled Movement

The detail shots tell more of the story for each installation.
Visit the archives on Clary’s blog to see more.

“The whole process becomes very meditative, whether its cutting and sanding my supports, or spending days meticulously cutting paper, or cutting all the polystyrene spacers that go in between each layer everything takes so much time that I have to fall in love with it or I’d go crazy.” Charles Clary, from this interview

Codastic Diddlation, detail

Microbial Reverberation, detail

 This detail shot shows the acrylic spacers between the paper layers

These worlds escape reality, growing beyond my control. With each new evolution, these worlds continue to grow and morph into strange new embodiments, developing new and limitless manifestations of viral like expanses. Charles Clary from an interview with yatzer

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