My office mate and I wish you a safe, enjoyable holiday! I think this marks the unofficial beginning of Fall, no? My favorite season, besides the other three.

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.

“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.

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

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/

Photo collage created with shapecollage.com.

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.

Be sure to check out Mr. Buynak’s previous book (I’ve read it a few times myself), Yo Quiero Mas Sangre, available at Amazon HERE. You can also find it at other places, too. Check out www.ryanbuynak.com for more information, samples of his poetry, and other musings. And after you do that, go subscribe to his blog here: http://coyoteblood.blogspot.com/. And do not leave without watching this video:

There’s this line from Kerouac’s On The Road that comes to my mind when I read Ryan’s work - I would gather this aptly describes him:
“[...] the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars [...]“