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Eat Food IV
This is my fourth papercut inspired by the first line of Michael Pollan’s article “Unhappy Meals.”
Lo Alecha II
This is my second piece with the phrase starting “Lo Alecha”. This text loosely translates as “It is not for you to complete the work [of repairing the world]. Not up to you to finish it. But neither are you free to desist from it.” This phrase comes from Pirkei Avot (Ethics of the Fathers), which is part of the Mishna, the Jewish oral law.
Ayelet Engidawork
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
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.
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.