inspiration - day two

My featured artist today is the amazing Su Blackwell.  Her book-cut sculptures are meticulously crafted and so very beautiful and inventive.  I would love to see her work in person as I'm sure that it is even more stunning in all its dimensional, delicate glory.  I thought she also had an interesting artist statement:

Paper has been used for communication since its invention; either between humans or in an attempt to communicate with the spirit world. I employ this delicate, accessible medium and use irreversible, destructive processes to reflect on the precariousness of the world we inhabit and the fragility of our life, dreams and ambitions.

It is the delicacy, the slight feeling of claustrophobia, as if these characters, the landscape have been trapped inside the book all this time and are now suddenly released. A number of the compositions have an urgency about them, the choices made for the cut-out people from the illustrations seem to lean towards people on their way somewhere, about to discover something, or perhaps escaping from something. And the landscapes speak of a bleak mystery, a rising, an awareness of the air.

detail 1:

detail 2:

She also did this really cool ad for Beringer Wine:

Comments

[mary]

Wow! I am in awe! I am blown away by the creativity...the super natural drive to do this. The time it must take....
The committment...

[Flassie]

Awesome! I seen another video something like that one. I think I have a link to it somewhere on my blog but couldn't tell you at the moment or what I have it under.

The altered books are amazing!

I really like your blog!

God Bless You and Yours in Jesus Name!!!