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Louis

april — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 18:22:11 +0000

Commissioned by AG and JG for the first birthday of their son Louis, named partially for the great musician Louis Armstrong.

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Two Zebras

april — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 17:20:07 +0000

This papercut was a commissioned piece. The two zebras are calmly intertwined, each doing their own thing, looking at what’s around them, but not with an absence of passion and tension.

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This is the true joy…

april — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 16:44:06 +0000

This piece was created as a commission. LR wants to give it as a gift to honor a physician mentor of hers. She chose the quote, which is from George Bernard Shaw and reads “This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.”

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Ayelet Engidawork

april — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:24:24 +0000

This papercut was a gift to friends with a new baby daughter. It’s three-layer – white, maroon, pink. Into the white layer are cut gazelles, the name Engidawork in Amharic, and the name Ayelet Ophira in Hebrew. Into the maroon layer is cut the priestly blessing, given over children weekly.

A Secret Commission

april — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 13:04:13 +0000

I’m starting research and design work on a secret commision – secret because the people who commissioned it don’t know about it yet! I can’t say much, other than this papercut involves a lot of research into how to spell things in a language I don’t know at all. And the due-date deadline for the papercut is unknown. A fun challenge.

College posters

april — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 14:52:25 +0000

My cousin, who just started her first year of college 3000 miles away from her home, has put out a general call to friends and family to make art for her walls. I got some large posterboard and created two mosaic-y paper-art things for her. This should cover quite a few square feet!

Ani l’dodi v’dodi li

april — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:32:16 +0000

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.”

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Dan and Elissa

april — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 15:21:19 +0000

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.

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Ketubah – finished

april — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 17:25:53 +0000

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Ketubah, cut and written

april — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 15:02:49 +0000

My sweetie and I designed our ketubah together. I have now finished cutting the papercut and our professional calligrapher (on my list of things to become) finished the text. My sweetie will be painting a colorful watercolor background.

As you can see here, the text is on a different piece of paper from the papercut – when we get it framed, we’ll have to be sure to rotate them correctly. The painted round background will be a third piece of paper, and then there’ll be a matte as the background to fill in the rest of the square.

Will post a photo of the finished piece when it’s done!