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Eat Food II

This is my second papercut inspired by the first line of Michael Pollan’s article “Unhappy Meals.” I started with the words and worked outwards, and it ended up being very…
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Spider Day Two

Last night I added another 170 squares to the spider abdomen. This makes for a total of 339 squares. Click here to see more pictures.    
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Cranes

Two cranes chillin’ in a fantastical design.     Click here to see the whole piece.    
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Spider begins

I started a new metal sculpture that I’m building entirely out of squares (well, most are actually just rectangles and a few are triangles). You can’t tell right now, but…
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Hamsa with Plants

This piece was commissioned by Merrie, who gave me lots of free rein, asking only for a hamsa, with intricate work. Here’s a link to the whole piece.  
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Dragon in a Circle

I’m kind of amazed that this papercut ended up holding together. I was worried the whole time that some part was going to be unconnected, it got so complicated! Here’s…
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“Eat Food…”

The text from this papercut is the first line of an article (“Unhappy Meals”) by Michael Pollan in the NYTimes magazine from January 28, 2007. “Eat food. Not too much.…
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Ribs and Spine

I used two layers of paper, one white and one grey, to convey distance and space between the bones closer to you and the bones further away. I cut out…
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Lungs

This papercut is a representation of human lungs and windpipe. It was not inspired by Dr Seuss, but has some of that feel, somehow. Click here to see the whole…
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Modern Birchat haBayit

This commissioned papercut has the declaration “blessing for the home” and the last line of the traditional birkat, “Let this home be filled with the blessing of joy, and peace.”…
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Digital Fish Grows

Last night I put some more time into the fish. I added another 167 squares to the fish, and I cut another 251. The total number of squares on the…
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Letter Mem

This letter, called ‘mem,’ is also representative of the number 40 in Hebrew. Click here to see the whole papercut.