In the City

 

A Poem in Pictures

 

 

Rendered in papercuts.  The white areas are background paper showing through openings cut into black paper laid on top.  A third layer of paper on top of the black makes the gray borders.  I did this piece in 1981-82 – my reply to the works of Franz Masereel (`Die Stadt’) and Lynd Ward (`God’s Man’).

 

The papercuts measure roughly 3”x4”, on the outside edge.  In the summer of 1982, I had them bound into a book, and then around 1987 or `88, I de-bound the book to scan the individual cuts.

 

Other than that, I prefer to let the work speak for itself.

 

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(images 1 through 20)

out of 73 images

this is part one.

 

In The City  (part one)

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