All the playing with paper last week is leading somewhere interesting this week as I continue to work with maps. I’ve been cutting many circles and transforming them into triangles, which then in turn attach together to become a larger form. The play of shape, form, with the colours and textures of the map paper are making for interesting things.
I haven’t included a photo of the overall work, but it’s about 33″ x 27.5″ at the moment and is made up of about one hundred cut circles. The bottom photo here hints at where I hope to go with this, and intersperse small paper cuts throughout.
R~
this is gorgeous! have you thought about incorporating the little cut out “leaf” shapes into this piece as a secondary pattern over/with the maps? it’s just beautiful.
xo
S
Shelley, I hadn’t considered it but I love the idea. I did start out doing paper cuts with the maps before I moved to folding them.