Nohoko
Kojima is a contemporary paper cut artist who treats paper cuts as
sculpture. Her "one-off"
designs are never duplicated as she states that she never wants to cut the same
thing twice. Kojima's paper cuts are very labor intensive and if one mistake is
made, there is no way to repair it, making an extremely stressful work as well.
She uses blades that are one half the thickness of normal blades and replaces
them every three minutes, which also makes this a costly form of art as
well.
In
2013, Kojima was awarded the Jerwood Maker Open commission. She exhibited a 10
foot swimming polar bear titled Byaku, which means "white" in
Japanese. The life-size paper sculpture which took seven months to complete, was
cut from a single of white Japanese washi paper that was first crumpled by hand
to give the paper an uneven texture and a more faceted form. Suspended from the celling, viewers could
interact with the piece by walking in and under it.
While
some of Kojima's work is three dimensional, she also displays her work in a two
dimensional fashion like a painting in a frame.
In her piece titled Chandelier, she layers sheets of black and red cut
paper to create a unique and interesting
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