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Friday Favorite: Amy Lewis Mesko

5/8/2015

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This Friday’s featured artist is Amy Lewis Mesko and her meticulously hand-cut maps of cities across the United States and beyond! Love the intricacy and attention to detail in these!
Amy Lewis Mesko
She writes:
I love everything about paper -- the feel, the smell, the sound -- and have experimented with many types of paper art.  I've found that paper cutting satisfies my love of the sensual aspects of art and in my life.

Paper cutting uses a very fine blade to remove the negative space in an image, whether it's the space between roads in a map or the space between the branches of a tree.  It requires extreme precision if one wishes to end up with a recognizable image, and the focused and repetitive movements of my hand with the blade removing that negative space bring me a sense of peace and joy in a life that often feels cluttered.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Geneva, Switzerland
Geneva, Switzerland
Lisbon, Portugal
Lisbon, Portugal
Please visit Amy’s website at www.questendpaperworks.com and her Facebook page at www.facebook.com/questendpaperworks to see more of these amazing maps!

Have a great weekend!
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Rebecca Buchanan
5/11/2015 05:05:50 am

I never tire of your Friday Favorites, Mary--always a new surprise. Of course, I knew of Amy's artwork before, but so exciting to see it featured here.

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