Slicing skills

The dutch paper architect Ingrid Siliakus has got some serious slicing and cutting skills as goes for the book surgeon Brian Dettmer. The delicate and fragile paperartworks is fascinating and holds a narrative of great patience and a steady hand

Ingrid Siliakus was inspired by the japanese professor and paperarchitect Masahiro Chatani who developed the artform in the 1980′ies. The artform is defined as the art of creating an object out of a single piece of paper. This means that the proces toward the final design sometimes doing 20 to 30 prototypes. When the designproces is finished the paper architecture artwork is based on a combination of detailed cutting and folding.

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Another amazing and fascinating paper and knife artist is Brian Dettmer aka the book surgeon, who slices up books in the most intriguing and delicate ways revealing all of the good stuff that’s inside the books and which usually only is accessible for the reader when he or she is flipping through the pages. Dettmer can’t be categorized as an paper architect but he definitely got some slicing skills.