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Ani l’dodi v’dodi li
Alison commissioned this piece for her to give to her fiance as a proposal token.
She requested two trees with branches entangled and the words connecting the branches as if spread between the atzim of a torah. Despite a relatively short timeline, I think I came up with a really beautimous result!
The text is traditional and means “I am my beloved and my beloved is mine.”
Dan and Elissa
this papercut has the traditional birkat habayit text along with the hebrew names of my two friends who just got married this past june. this is their wedding gift.
Chicken Skeleton
Not much to say about this one, other than that I really really like how it came out.
The two-tone works really well here. Also, the grey plays two different roles in this papercut - both as a second tone for the skull and neck, and as a separate part of the skeleton (further away) in the ribs and legs.
Snake Skeleton
Continuing with last week’s theme (animal skeletons) I’ve cut a snake skeleton this week. It was a rattlesnake … posing curled up, ready to strike. Scary.
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Turtle skeleton
While looking through my papercuts from last year, i was particularly struck by the skeletons. i do think that i want to do more papercuts of human skeletons, but for the time being I decided to do a few of animals (this is the first and there’s another on the burner (ouch, that’s kind of the wrong analogy for a papercut!))
Eliav Zecharia
I designed and completed this papercut over a year ago but am only now posting it. It was a baby present for Eliav. His Hebrew name is Eliav Zechariah, which is at the top of the papercut. His name in Amharic is Tariku, which is at the bottom of the papercut. The text next to the tree is cut out from the dark blue background, revealing a second, light blue background beneath and is the traditional blessing parents say over their children, aka the priestly blessing.
Brooklyn Bridge IV
Another in a now 4-part series of papercuts on our lovely Brooklyn Bridge.
Eat Food III
My third papercut inspired by Michael Pollan’s line “Eat Food. Not Too Much. Mostly Plants.”
Nursery Animals
I started making a series of animal art for the nursery. They are kind of papercuts, in that I started with paper and cut it, but I’m using construction paper, not any special kind of paper. Also different from my usual papercuts in that they are very colorful and I haven’t planned them out at all! Almost no drawing; just pick up the paper and cut. It’s been a lot of fun so far. I plan to make three desert creatures next. These first three are sea creatures.
Brooklyn Bridge III
This is the third in what I plan to be a series of four or five papercuts featuring this bridge.