Cut Between the Lines
Craft Cubed 2017
Cut Between The Lines is a collaborative project between paper cut artist Laura Baker and members of the community. Laura extended an open invite for line based submissions: a drawing, a scribble, a grocery list. These images were to be transformed into an intricate paper cut artwork. Final collaborative artworks are displayed in an online exhibition, before being mailed back to the creator at the end of the project. The combination and juxtaposition of traditional line based work and paper cutting, with online submission forms and social media posts, expands possible audiences for the project and creates an online community around the project. In reality paper cutting is a tactile art form and, whilst photographed shadows and contrasting colour attempt to convey the delicacy, it is only when they are physically held that one truly understands the physicality of the piece. Sending final artworks back to their creators closes the collaborative and creative cycle.
This physical materiality further explores the minimum requirements for an image to exist. By sacrificing pigment, and removing empty space, an image appears from within the paper itself. Playful musing wonders if images already exist inside blank paper, and seeks to reveal the magic underneath the lines drawn by individuals in their everyday lives. These submitted marks carry the personal signature or their maker, and will eventuate in a diverse collection of collaborative artworks.
Selected artworks displayed.
