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Hamsa with Fishes

This papercut I made using a half-fold method, rendering the piece truly symmetrical. The Hamsa’s (a traditional symbol of protection) designs hide two fishes (symbols of fertility and the month…
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Brooklyn Bridge

This papercut was more tedious than many of the recent ones I’ve been doing of animals. Getting the gridwork cut just right, with straight lines and without cutting anything off…
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Metal Bear continues

I’ve been toiling away at the bear since I started it in July. These days, progress is not always obvious. Last night I spent three hours working on him and…
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Approaching Tiger

I was inspired to do this papercut of a tiger (or, rather, do this papercut of the stripes of a tiger!) after seeing a photograph one of Mary Schwalm’s most…
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Curious Reese

This handsome hybrid is the dog companion of a fellow dog-having friend of mine. I’ve capture him in cut paper … and it looks just like him! See the whole…
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Froggy Hand

After seeing some of my animal papercuts, and looking through some of Mary‘s photos, someone asked me to make a papercut of this frog, with his little toes all extended…
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Dancing Penguin

This inkblot-lookin’ penguin was inspired by a photograph of Mary Schwalm (as are a number of my other pieces). I nearly destroyed this piece because when I first designed it…
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Missing Spots

I was inspired to do this papercut of a giraffe (or, rather, do this papercut of the spots of a giraffe!) after seeing one of the photographs from Mary Schwalm‘s…
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Double-Headed Eagle

This small papercut features the two-headed eagle (often seen in Eastern European Jewish papercuts and other ritual art) and the word “Mizrach” which is the Hebrew word for ‘east’ and…
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Buffalo on the Prarie

Last weekend, when I went to the American Museum of Natural History, I had a sit-down (much to the excitement of the masses of schoolkids wandering through the building) to…
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Drawings from Lifelike Death

I took a trip to the American Museum of Natural History this past weekend and did some drawings from death of these taxidermied animals from Africa. There’s an elephant, a…
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For My Sake …

This papercut is based on the same phrase as a papercut from earlier this summer. Both are inspired by a Hasidic teaching, that all persons should have two pieces of…