Sculpture and Paper Cuts

I'm creating two panels for a display garden by Linda Meyer for this year's Yard Garden Patio Show. The garden theme is Parisian cafes, with, of course, a little Van Gogh. The panels will be laser cut steel, but I begin designing with an easier material. Paper.

Each square is made by 4 tiny precise cuts. Wildly tedious, but fun to watch grow.

Sunflowers papercut by Patrick Gracewood ©2012

St Francis papercut © Patrick Gracewood

  I wanted to explore the idea of circles within circles that began with the St Francis paper cut.

At the end of a day's work? Little bits of black paper everywhere.