City Lights

11 x 14 inch paper cutting. View larger HERE.

LIGHT by Clement Wood
(from The White Peacock, copyright 1928)

Tea… and the wide driveways packed with
cars…
Doorman… wraps off… hostess… wide waxed
floors
Leading to windows ceiling the close indoors
Behind beckoning transparent bars….
And people, clotted like a swarm of stars
Centering the Milky Way: poor puzzled bores
Gaping at one another. The hostess pours
Her tepid fluid, with particulars
Of this frivolous scandal, that surprising
Nothing…. The vacant faces blur and sway,
Lifeless in their attitudinizing….
And then, into this void, this vacuous nay,
My glad eyes see you come, like Sirius rising,
Like a moon rising, like the sun rising into day.

Upcoming Greeting Card Publication

“Sending to You” - Cut Paper Art
This is one of two paper cut designs of mine that are going to be published as greeting cards by Artists To Watch. According to their website (artiststowatch.com), “Artists to Watch is an award-winning, greeting card company. For 25 years we have been publishing the work of talented and independent artists from around the world, crafting high quality cards that meld visually intriguing images with thought provoking words.” They use recycled paper for their cards and print with soy-based inks. The catalog with my cards should be coming out in a few weeks for orders for early 2011. I’ll keep you up-to-date.

Help Flood Victims in Pakistan

It’s obvious the flooding in Pakistan isn’t getting the media coverage it deserves here in the States. I don’t know about elsewhere… We’re all human - that should be enough to want to help. You can make a donation here — even small donations help:
http://www.imrankhanfoundation.org/donate

Stacks - Cut Paper Art

16 x 20 inch paper cutting inspired by buildings in an illustration by Mitsumasa Anno from 1976. Colored with tissue paper.

Lotte Reiniger

Lotte Reiniger. Photographer/ copyright unknown.

The woman whose art changed my life. I will pay her continual homage.
Read more about her here: http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/528134/

This is your brain on paper cuttings.

Photo collage created with shapecollage.com.

Time Out Chicago - Cover Art

A few weeks ago, the art director from Time Out Chicago contacted me to do a paper cutting for their Fall Preview issue highlighting upcoming autumn attractions such as music, nightlife, fashion, etc. It’s on newsstands this week. Also, CLICK HERE to check out a feature on my work on timeoutchicago.com with a slideshow of photos of this paper cutting in progress.

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Asides

• "For if one always saw like this, one would never want to do anything else. -Aldous Huxley, On Art and Artists #