Video: Artistic piercing and paper burning. Tapestries by Tomoko Shioyasu
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
This is not lace fabric, as one might think, and not drawings made in simple pencil on white sheets of thick paper. This is another version of paper art, paper cutting, which Japanese artist Tomoko Shioyasu has been doing for a long time and successfully. Like a spider, he "weaves" his "web", but out of paper and using a blade, scalpel and … a soldering iron.
True, the paper that the master turns into carved lace canvases is also unusual - synthetic. It is denser than ordinary paper, although it is just as thin and pliable, fragile and very vulnerable. One careless movement with a chisel - and weeks of hard laborious work down the drain. So we clenched our teeth, had patience, we think about pleasant things - and get to work.
Paper carving requires concentration and dedication from the author, precision of movements and firmness of hands. This process is similar to surgery, but without blood or anesthesia. Although the result also depends on the initial state of the "patient" and the skill of the surgeon, in our case, the plastic one. So, Tomoko Shioyasu removes the thinnest plates of "living flesh" from the canvas, cuts out curls and semicircles, makes holes of different shapes and diameters in it, and as a result, all this turns into an intricate ornament, airy and transparent, like expensive lace.
You can get acquainted with the works of Tomoko better on the author's website.
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