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17 layer illustrative paper cut. Each layer was hand drawn, hand cut using @excelblades and knives, and carefully painted using watercolors. When thinking about paper passions, I decided to go right to the source. I live with chronic illness. I have been sick for over ten years, with symptoms ranging from extended periods of intense headaches, body exhaustion, fevers, extreme motion sickness, brain fog, and more. When I was first diagnosed at age 15, I had to dropout of high school for a year. I was very limited physically during that time, and the two main things I could do detract myself from the constant pain I was in was to draw, and watch movies. This was before the age of Netflix and having every television show and movie at my fingertips, so I was limited to crappy daytime television, or DVDs my family had on hand. For christmas the year before, I had received The Lord of the Rings extended trilogy. This disk set came with not just the movies, but also countless hours of extended features. I had loved the movies for years, but the behind the scenes content was new to me. I was entranced by how these insanely talented artists and craftspeople came together to bring to life an entire universe. I would watch it over and over again, even if it was only playing in the background as familiar noise when I was in to much pain to look at the screen. It gave me comfort, distraction, imagination, and inspiration during some of my darkest and most painful moments. When I was 19, a new symptom of my illness arose. I began having tremors in my hands. Suddenly, I could no longer execute the detailed and symmetrical art I had previously been creating because my hands were shaking too much. With lots of experimentation, I found that the pressure exerted on a knife during the paper cutting process was enough to steady my hand. I could draw a rough first draft, then do a second (more precise) pass at the piece with a knife. I fell in love, and that passion led me here, to this very moment and this very project. I am here to pay homage to the journey. @arctic_paper @paperartistcollective #PaperArt #PaperCut #HandCut

17 layer illustrative paper cut. Each layer was hand drawn, hand cut using @excelblades and knives, and carefully painted using watercolors. When thinking about paper passions, I decided to go right to the source. I live with chronic illness. I have been sick for over ten years, with symptoms ranging from extended periods of intense headaches, body exhaustion, fevers, extreme motion sickness, brain fog, and more. When I was first diagnosed at age 15, I had to dropout of high school for a year. I was very limited physically during that time, and the two main things I could do detract myself from the constant pain I was in was to draw, and watch movies. This was before the age of Netflix and having every television show and movie at my fingertips, so I was limited to crappy daytime television, or DVDs my family had on hand. For christmas the year before, I had received The Lord of the Rings extended trilogy. This disk set came with not just the movies, but also countless hours of extended features. I had loved the movies for years, but the behind the scenes content was new to me. I was entranced by how these insanely talented artists and craftspeople came together to bring to life an entire universe. I would watch it over and over again, even if it was only playing in the background as familiar noise when I was in to much pain to look at the screen. It gave me comfort, distraction, imagination, and inspiration during some of my darkest and most painful moments. When I was 19, a new symptom of my illness arose. I began having tremors in my hands. Suddenly, I could no longer execute the detailed and symmetrical art I had previously been creating because my hands were shaking too much. With lots of experimentation, I found that the pressure exerted on a knife during the paper cutting process was enough to steady my hand. I could draw a rough first draft, then do a second (more precise) pass at the piece with a knife. I fell in love, and that passion led me here, to this very moment and this very project. I am here to pay homage to the journey. @arctic_paper @paperartistcollective #PaperArt #PaperCut #HandCut

#PaperArt #PaperCut #HandCut

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