Video: Topographic maps in the form of layered postcards. Paper art from Crafterall
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
When the saying "paper will endure everything" was born, people could not even imagine what exactly paper would have to endure. Not only the graphomania of poets and the creative efforts of artists, but also all kinds of origami, quilling, sculptures - and all this is also made of paper. Finally, armed with a blade, scalpel and knives, the creators began to comprehend a new direction in paper art - paper cutting, thanks to which Karen O'Leary's openwork cut-out cards and unusual layered postcards American author by name Marnie Karger … In creative circles, Marnie is known as Crafterall, under the same pseudonym, he presents his multi-layered paper works to the world. According to Marnie himself, he loved to do needlework even when he was a shooter, and since then his ambitions have grown from a homemade box with all sorts of tools for "crafting" to his own studio, where creative layered cards are born that made him famous. Now the artist himself raises two shoots, and, fortunately, he has a very patient and loving wife, who allows her husband to spend a lot of free time making new paper beauties.
From paper of different textures, thicknesses and colors, the artist recreates topographic maps of certain areas, for example, Manhattan and the Great Lakes, the Apostle Islands and the coast of San Francisco. And only those who know what all these colorful objects mean can guess the outlines of cities, islands and lakes in the abstract figures. In addition, more understandable postcards come out of Marnie's small studio - with hearts and flowers, leaves and trees, well, creative abstractions - but what about without them in contemporary art?
All of this is available in different colors and formats, so if someone has a desire to send a beautiful riddle on the topic of "where will we spend our honeymoon" to a loved one or a loved one, then you can use postcards from Crafterall. All of them are presented on the author's page in the gallery on Etsy.
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