Video: Paper, scissors and Emma Van Leest
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
There are surprisingly many authors who work with paper. Those who are engaged in cutting various images from it are fewer. And there are only a few of those who do it really skillfully. Australian Emma Van Leest is one of the latter, because her insanely complex and fragile work deserves only the highest praise.
Emma took up cutting pictures from paper in her second year of university. She claims that paper is a material with truly limitless possibilities. Of course, not all paper can be used to create what was conceived, but through trial and error, you can always find exactly the variety that will satisfy all the author's requirements. Now Emma works with relatively thick paper that is very easy to cut, but which does not deteriorate after a while. However, there is no limit to perfection, so the search for the ideal material continues.
The work of the craftswoman is very painstaking and laborious: it takes hours of hard work to cut out intricate images that seem light and airy to the viewer. The slightest careless movement can ruin the whole work, but, fortunately, such cases are very rare.
According to Emma, she draws inspiration for her work from many sources. These are paintings by Caravaggio and Vermeer, traditional Chinese illustrations, medieval art, ivory carvings, Renaissance artists … The list goes on and on.
Emma Van Leest was born in 1978 in Melbourne, where she still lives. A large number of her paperwork can be found here.
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