Keeping with the Paper cutting theme I came across these artists while researching for a project which integrated Japanese Paper cutting style. We were doing ours in copper foil for table lanterns.

I’ve gathered a collection of smaller paper cuttings in my travels – mostly Chinese, they feature everything from wedding prosperity symbols, to Chairman Mao to a highway scene full of cars and power pylons and planes overhead.

 

 

Artist Aoyama Hina is from Japan and now resides in Paris – like the other artists featured she explores culture and symbolism – traditional of this artform and applies it in a modern context.

 

Bovey Lee defines what she does as “drawing with a knife”  she uses digital technology to create her compositions which she then cuts out by hand.  She describes Power, sacrifice, and survival as being the underlying narrative to her work – combining traditional and delicate techniques with contemporary images and symbolism of modern destruction and decay – she creates a subversive and paradoxical message in her work.

 

On a lighter note Ting Yu Wang has fun with fashion creating false paper eyelashes.