She conquered her fear of the forest with adorable paper art
This video is part of our new series Paper Cuts, in which you get to be a fly on the wall during the hypnotic process of artists who do incredible things with paper, scissors, glue sticks and Xacto knives. Subscribe to CBC Arts to watch more videos: About seven years ago, illustrator Kelly Pousette started cutting out elements of her illustrations and propping them up on her desk. She d photograph them with mood lighting, creating tiny worlds at different times of day, populated with woodland creatures and fairy tale trees. She says, I felt I could make them come And she did. Social media responded, and her newly formed paper cut art practice flourished. After some time, Pousette started creating 3D shadow boxes that she could light and photograph, making the resulting photos the final iteration of her art. She now works with a wide variety of media and paper types. Nothing is offlimits, as long as it helps to create a scene she
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