Papercrafting Part 4

One of the things I have wanted to do for a while is to create an installation of a handcut, paper, piece of artwork for a show. I really enjoy working with paper and the slow process of cutting by hand but it would be great to work on a larger scale having a large white wall to work on. So I was looking again through some of my contacts on papercrafting and forgot how good Charles Clary's work is. His style is a great process of layering pieces of card to create a 3D effect. the sort of effect could be described as seeing map contours brought to life.

He is based in America but has started to exhibit all over the world in the last few years and you can see why he is gaining in popularity as his pieces have a great colourful, tactile quality to them. Not only does he compose pieces directly on to a wall but also he creates some amazing canvas pieces which are self contained artworks formed of cutting through the canvas and creating a 3D artwork beneath. The beauty of these is that they are easily transferable and also more commercial in a purely practical sense.

With some of them its like seeing a bacterial organic shape taking over a wall and you never quite know how big it may get. there seems a lack of cohesive symmetry to them which appeals greatly as they feel like a free expression instead of obeying a set pattern or set of rules.