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yuko takada keller... May 12, 2010

yukotakada_7 Above Spring Breeze Below left Water Form Below right Summer Breeze

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Yuko Takada Keller began her creative career designing and making woolen tapestries, but not long after graduating from university she turned to paper as the primary medium for creating her art. She started using traditional Japanese washi paper but felt it didn’t have the level of transparency she desired. After experimenting with other types of paper, she discovered tracing paper gave her the effect she was looking for. Yuko has been using tracing paper ever since and just take a look at the amazing array of work she has created with it.

Left Spring Breeze (detail) Right Between the Air yukotakada_2

Left Air Pyramid Right Spring Breeze (detail)
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Yuko cuts up small triangular pieces of tracing paper that she says, symbolises a molecule of water, light or air. She is drawn towards pointillism and finds inspiration from this technique when creating these truly ethereal paper installations.

Spring Sea yukotakada_8

Left Prismatic – Made from 7,500 paper pyramids, wow! Right Spring Sea (detail) yukotakada_6

Left Spring Breeze (detail) Right The Shape yukotakada_3

Left Expectation Right Pillars of Light yukotakada_4

Comments

Kitty — 13 May at 03:12AM

Wow this is amazing..her work just takes my breath away. Thanks for sharing!

Ceci — 13 May at 07:41AM

Beautiful!

Deborah — 13 May at 09:21AM

Oh my, what amazing work, absolutely stunning, I’d love to see it for real!

dana — 13 May at 09:53AM

The bottom left hand image had me squealing with excitement. Stunning. xx

Justine — 14 May at 10:23AM

Thanks for all your comments! They really are amazing works. And Dana, I was squealing too ;)

emily @ the daily smudge — 14 May at 12:42PM

WOW… these are gobsmacking… so ethereal and beautiful… makes me want to go galloping through them!

Julie — 25 May at 06:01AM

I am so pleased to have found your blog/site. I love paper cutting so it’s such a pleasure to see beautiful posts about ‘paper’ designers! thanks

Justine — 25 May at 06:13PM

Thanks Julie : )

{g} — 31 May at 03:08AM

this is absolutely breathtaking – especially adore spring breeze

Anonymous — 02 November at 06:39PM

This is pretty cool and interesting to find out what inspired these artworks

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