TOPIC: PAPER CUTS

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Rebecca Clouâtre's paper dreamscapes make us want to get lost in the natural world

Paper art helped her transition into a new career. Now, she's using it to explore another huge transition: motherhood.
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Newfoundland's had a rough winter. Artist Molly Margaret is making it a little better — with paper

At the end of a punishing winter in St. John's, Margaret is using paper to call attention to seasonal affective disorder.
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From their grandmother's words at an airport, Cat Lamora creates an iridescent paper landscape

"She pulled me into her arms and she said, 'May you become a big bowl so that you may hold the mountains of your home in your heart.'"
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Newfoundland's had a rough winter. Artist Molly Margaret is making it a little better — with paper

On the heels of a harsh Newfoundland winter, artist Molly Margaret is making paper art about seasonal affective disorder - and hope. Filmmaker: Latonia Hartery
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From their grandmother's words at an airport, Cat Lamora creates an iridescent paper landscape

'She pulled me into her arms and she said, "May you become a big bowl so that you may hold the mountains of your home in your heart."' Filmmakers: Arnika Tamatoa and Jess Hayes.
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Paper artist Sam Heidinger spends a lot of time with a knife...but we promise for very nice reasons

The Calgary artist's practice is almost meditative. "Some people do yoga; I paper cut."
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A lifetime in Muskoka inspired Col Mitchell to express the magic and mystery of nature with paper

Mitchell breaks down the complicated process behind her layered paper works — and how she hopes viewers get an "echo" of their own experiences in nature.
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Using paper to express the magic and mystery of nature in Muskoka

Col Mitchell translates her time in the wilds of Muskoka into intricate works made of layered and crumpled paper. Filmmakers: Arnika Tamatoa and Jess Hayes.
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Paper turns into extravagant sculptures in Lacy Barry's Berlin studio

Working from her imagination, a dye cutter, a strong sense of colour and inspiration that things like architecture and flowers, Barry makes paper do magical things.
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We're genuinely pretty freaked out — in a good way — by what Cybèle Young can do with paper

The Toronto artist bends Japanese paper to her will to create works that are fragile, miniature and full of power.
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We're genuinely pretty freaked out by what Cybèle Young can do with paper

Artist Cybèle Young turns paper into string, tentacles and a creature from the sea.
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Paper turns into extravagant sculpture in Lacy Barry's Berlin studio

Working from her imagination, a dye cutter, a strong sense of colour and inspiration from everything from architecture to flowers, Lacy Barry makes paper do magical things.
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Every image on every magazine page can be an ingredient in Jacob Intilé's uncanny collages

In an old photo album, Intilé keeps magazine images the way you'd keep family photos — until he has the chance to transform them.
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Every image on every magazine page can be an ingredient in Jacob Intilé's uncanny collages

In Jacob Intilé's studio, pieces of images live next to each other until he marries them in surreal collages.
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We're mesmerized by the paper cutting and folding magic of Pauline Loctin

Using two basic origami folds, artist Pauline Loctin (a.k.a. Miss Cloudy) has managed to make paper sculptural, mystical — and entirely hypnotizing.
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We're mesmerized by the paper cutting and folding magic of Pauline Loctin

Using two basic origami folds, artist Pauline Loctin (aka Miss Cloudy) has managed to make paper sculptural, mystical - and entirely hypnotizing.
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For artist Christine Kim, paper cutting is a direct line to mystery — and tension

Christine Kim uses drawing, erasing and paper cutting to make works about the spaces between people we cannot cross.
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For artist Christine Kim, paper cutting is a direct line to mystery — and tension

Paper holds mystery and tension for artist Christine Kim.
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Kelly Pousette had a fear of the forest, but her paper cut dioramas helped her find joy in the wild

"Now when we go hiking, I see them as these peaceful beautiful places that they are."

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