William H. Young
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Fairies and Driving
Two projects demanded a lot of scissor work: one was where a young woman walks down a mountain infested, enchanted?, with fairies, and the other project is where a monster is barreling down a highway in a fast car. Cutting out microscopic fairies and the wild, splayed-hand arm gestures from the first-person perspective of a monster driving his car were among the first really intriguing, real interesting, honestly engaging work that I did while pursuing a career in art. These two projects share one major component, beyond inkwork, painting, composition, and wordless storytelling: the craft behind paper cutting. Each fairy trickster in gowns of leaves and woven spider-thread, each rear-view mirror needing a separate scene painted, reversed and just a tiny bit blurry inside its half-inch-by-three-inch frame, each hand and every strand of arm hair and stray lock of hair caught by the wind, each and every one of these had to get cut, snipped, and teased out of its paper home without losing even a bit of ink, and without including a shred of white, or else risk losing the original composition and vision. Because even if I redraw the damaged piece, well, I'd have to cut that one out too, wouldn't I?
By William H. Young3 years ago in Wheel