Video: Paper lace from old newspapers Myriam Dion
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Canadian artist Myriam Dion transforms something as prosaic as the front pages of daily newspapers into magical patterned canvases, using only a sharp blade and a rich imagination.
Miriam Dion is a student in the Department of Fine Arts and Information Design at the University of Quebec. Working with old editions of the Financial Times, The International Herald Tribune and Le Devoir, she carves intricate designs out of paper that resemble antique lace. Bonded into canvases that can cover an entire wall, newspaper pages become like samples of complex designer textiles.
The artist often uses illustrations, photographs, grid grids and spread color schemes as part of her compositions. Floral and geometric motifs, waves, spirals and ornaments combined with newspaper illustrations create completely new images, dynamic and graceful.
Miriam readily admits that she buys newspapers and magazines mainly because of the pictures. All her work is done by hand, without using a plotter. Apart from pencils and liners with which she makes sketches, the artist's only tool is the X-Acto model knife.
Dion claims that by turning ordinary newspaper spreads into works of art, she "finds new uses for the print press, which is now on the verge of extinction." The fragility of her paper lace symbolizes the vulnerable position of traditional "print" journalism.
Like Miriam Dion, painter, illustrator and graphic designer Mark Wagner takes a non-standard approach to his choice of work material. He composes complex collages of cut one dollar bills.
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