Video: Openwork cities made of paper. Cut Cards by Karen O'Leary
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
When traveling abroad, and even leaving for a neighboring city, many take cameras with them in order to photograph the most beautiful and interesting places where they happen to visit. And the artist Karen O'Learyto leave the memory of other cities and countries, you don't need cameras, movie cameras, or an easel with paints. All she needs is a scalpel, scissors, a pencil with a ruler, and quality heavy paper. And after some time, all this will turn into an openwork map of a city. One can only imagine how much time and work it takes Karen to carve out a single block of such a metropolis as Paris or San Francisco. Introduce and respect the artist. Karen says she first carefully studies the "cutting" of the city, then transfers it to paper, remembering to mark everything, even the smallest details, including roads and routes, riverbeds, fields and pastures.
As a result, the sheet of paper becomes openwork, similar to lace. But the one who knows his hometown like the back of his hand can easily solve this paper puzzle and determine where the main city square is, where his favorite concert hall is located, and where his own house is.
At the moment, Berlin and Paris, Singapore and San Francisco, Vancouver and Baltimore, Madrid and Chicago came out of the hands of Karen O'Leary … However, the collection of carved maps is replenished with more and more new works, which can be found on the page of the artist's art group StudioKMO.
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