Video: Leaf carving. Leaf Art by Spanish artist Lorenzo Duran
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Having only scissors and paper in stock, the artists do not get lost, and with the help of this poor arsenal they create the most real masterpieces. For example, paper cities like Laura Kuperman, fantastic stories like Emma Van Leest, words and phrases like Pablo Lehmann. And if we admire the works of these masters, then what can we say about the work of the Spanish artist? Lorenzo Duranwho deals with leaf carvingturning them into delicate laces and patterns? Once we have already written about the art of carving from leaves, and even then we were amazed at how jewelry, painstaking and delicate work it is. Indeed, in order to prepare the leaves of trees for interaction with scissors, scalpel, blade, or whatever the artist is wielding there, you need to take them through several stages. Collect, dry, process with boiling water, dry again, compress, and only then proceed to transforming an ordinary maple, nut, poplar or any other leaf into a work of art.
Lorenzo Duran "borrowed" the technique of carving patterns from leaves from historical studies of paper carving in China and Japan, where this kind of art was traditional and widespread among the people. True, the leaves are much more fragile and delicate material, respectively, work on it requires much more precautions, not to mention patience and perseverance. This is probably how Zen is comprehended …
You can get acquainted with the work of Lorenzo Duran (Lorenzo Duran) better on his personal site Natura y Arte.
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