Stillness in the Dark

Stillness in the Dark

95 articulated puppets with over 170,000 paper decorations

The Sunday Paper #490

December 17, 2023

My last workshops of the year will take place this coming week, and they are both free – I hope to see you at one or both! We’ll be making a different lantern at each workshop to shine some light on the darkest day of the year.

Wednesday, 12/20 at noon Mountain time (Denver): Tea Light Topper – Register Here.

Thursday, 12/21 at 3pm mountain time: Winter Solstice Lantern – Register Here.

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A reader sent me a link to this blog post by a former NY’er living in Paris. I was reminded of how I liked walking by the holiday shop windows at night when I lived in NYC. Her post features the holiday windows at Printemps. The paper puppets were designed by paper artist, extraordinaire, Mathilde Nivet.

95 articulated puppets with over 170,000 paper decorations

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I was delighted to meet Megumi Lorna Inouye at the Codex Book Fair a couple of years ago and to hear about her upcoming book, The Soul of Giftwrapping. She was just starting the project with the same company that has published most of my books, Storey Publishing. The book comes out in April, 2024, but here’s a sneak peak project – How to Wrap a Book without Tape.

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This feature is thanks to another blog reader – you guys are the best! Anke Neumann created Cloud of Imagination for the Folger Theatre at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC. The sculpture is composed of 250 individual handmade paper components, each lit from within by optical fibers that trace the contours of the softly cascading forms.

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This is behind the NY Times paywall, so you won’t be able to click through unless you’re a subscriber. In March, a troupe of mathematical tilers announced that they had discovered this “aperiodic monotile,” a shape that can tile an infinite flat surface in a pattern that does not repeat — “einstein” is the geometric term of art for this entity. The National Museum of Mathematics in New York and the United Kingdom Mathematics Trust in London then asked members of the public for their most creative renditions of an einstein. A couple of the finalists used paper! 

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Paper Tidbits

  • The Kalamazoo Book Arts Center hosts an annual Illustrated Accordion exhibition. Entries are due on January 22.
  • I’m so thankful to have dealers who help me get my artist’s books out into the world. Special thanks to David Abel from Passages Bookshop who travels the country, showing and selling my artist’s books!

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1 Comment

  1. June says:
    December 19, 2023 at 11:52 am

    Loved this blog with all the wonderful paper artists! Fabulous! Thanks!