Paper Culture

Pastorale Pastorale (2008). Handmade cattail paper, thread, knitted ramie thread, 17" x 10". Private collection.

A stunning paper mache table lamp handcrafted from recycled paper and glue to form a highly detailed illuminated mushroom.

Illustrator and paper artist Katrin Rodegast fused human anatomy and city maps in her editorial work for Globe, the magazine of ETH Zurich, a Swiss science, technology, engineering and mathematics university. Rodegast rolled, coiled, cut, and scored colorful maps to form a heart, brain, lungs, spine, and knee joint. Curving highways and waterways seem toContinue reading "Highways and Rivers Form Capillaries on Anatomical Paper Organs by Katrin Rodegast"

Interwoven Strength is the online exhibition of students who participated in Clarissa Callesen's Creating With Courage online course. www.fibreartstaketwo.com/courses/clarissacallesen

By Linda Fisher Thornton One of my favorite concepts for understanding how social media is changing the visibility of organizational culture is Trendwatching.com’s report Glass Box Brands. As…

Winner at Waes Diversity Competition

In intricately cut collages by Ontario-based artist Christine Kim, flowers, foliage, and crown-like adornments encompass anonymous portraits. Painted floral motifs on carefully torn pieces of paper paired with slats of wood appear like lath exposed beneath ornate wallpaper, providing a backdrop for the elegant silhouettes. The elaborate designs of the figures’ headdresses suggest wrought ironContinue reading "Layers of Intricately Cut Paper Evoke Strength and Vulnerability in Christine Kim’s…

a city cut from a single piece of paper

Stitched paper

Making handmade paper is an incredibly easy task. All you need is one new tool to make your own paper at home: a paper screen! After that, it’s an incredibly creative individual process and the ideas become endless. I absolutely love how this handmade paper with flowers in it turned out! In this ste

Obscured faces peek through tangles of leaves and stems in the ethereal portraits of Toronto-based artist Christine Kim. Her mixed-media collages layer textured graphite gradients and mesh-like cuttings into splintered depictions of her subjects. “‘Fragmentary’ is one word that I return to again and again because I think portraiture is an act of catching glimmersContinue reading "Layers of Cut Paper Foliage Fragment Christine Kim’s Collaged Portraits"

Chiang Jie on Instagram: "What is hidden in acorns? Perhaps only squirrels know! 🐿️This autumn, squirrels have already started storing food early! This also includes their favorite acorns~In order to help them survive the winter smoothly, why not come and fold some acorns(designed by @origamibeth )! The bottom of the fruit (a circle with a radius of 5cm) is a three-dimensional inlay (CP will be placed in the comment section), and the top part of the fruit (a 12cm square cut into a regular…