With a background in art and architecture, Brisbane, Australia-based Etsy seller Kolya works by hand "to reduce a city to almost nothing, to render the landscape in two dimensions, to see the world in a sheet of paper ... to see the humanity in everything."
The result: intricately beautiful city skylines (such as Paris, top, London, above, and New York, below). Carved with a surgical scalpel from card stock or paper money, these 3D paper sculptures are strikingly simple but breathtakingly precise.
Each cityscape costs $60 and is produced in a limited edition of ten and signed and numbered by the artist. A few others that caught my eye:
Shanghai
Hong Kong
Rio
Paris en Papier, $30, featuring the Arc de Triomphe cut from a Parisian art card
International Real, $52, a piece of the Manhattan skyline cut from a Brazilian 2 Real note
See all of Kolya's creations right here.
Tuesday, October 2, 2007
Etsy Find of the Day: Paper Skylines
Posted by Leah at 8:40 AM
Labels: cityscapes, Etsy, Etsy Find of the Day, Kolya, paper sculpture, skylines
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Great find! These are fantastic!!
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