Crafty Art: perfect papercuts

The first thing that springs to mind whenever I hear the term 'papercut' is the noise of drawing in air through your teeth and much wincing. Happily not all papercuts are the hurty kind and someone who is proving that in papery spadeloads is artist Peter Callesen.

Peter takes paper, glue and, I would imagine, a very sharp knife, and turns your everyday sheets of A4 paper into fabulous fragile works of art. The pieces have a fairytale quality like characters or scenes from stories emerging from the page. The artist says he uses the A4 sheets because they are so commonplace. Taking something we see every day and snipping and gluing a whole world out of it.

Dazzling, ephemeral and fiddly to make in the extreme. Probably best kept away from open flames too.

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