Image source: Ayumi Shibata “I continued cut paper as my hobby for two years. After that, I got into art school and enrolled in mixed media and printmaking for four years. I started three-dimensional paper cut in the first year of school,” she added. Today, we are featuring some of her cut paper sculptures placed inside illuminated glass vessels. Check out some of her beautiful masterpieces in the gallery below. More info: Website | Facebook | Instagram Ayumi tried various mediums such as clay, metal, water color, wood, etc in art school but she didn’t feel any connection with any of them. “I naturally feel a connection when I’m working on paper. There’s no description, I just love paper,” she says. The artist further explains that “Kami” is the Japanese word that means god, divinity, or spirit. It also means ‘paper. “In Japanese worship and in my religion of Shinto, invisible “Kami”; spirits dwell in various objects and events, places, as well as in our houses and in our bodies,” she elaborated. Ayumi uses her technique to express thankfulness to the “Kami” spirits for having been born in this life. She says, “Each cut,each page is a prayer. My process helps me to be quiet and clean up my mind in meditation or prayer. Through cutting the paper I feel purify my soul. By interacting with the “Kami” Spirit – material, I can connect to the “Kami” spirit’s world and our world.” Ayumi’s paper sculptures are perfect balance of Yin and Yang – “Paper represents Yin, also represents material/our sensible world. The cut out space represents Yang, also represents immaterial/invisible world,” she says. She further explains “Light represents spirit and life. The sun rises and breaths life into the world.” The artist says, “I make space/Yang into paper/Yin, Yin and Yang melt together and become one finished piece, then light it up, light imbue spirit and life reside in.” At last, Ayumi emphasized, “I believe my piece is a place to meet the material world and immaterial world.”
Image source: Ayumi Shibata
title: “Artist Creates Illuminated Sculptures Inside Glass Vessels By Using Traditional Japanese Paper Cutting” ShowToc: true date: “2024-09-25” author: “Edna Perkins”
Image source: Ayumi Shibata “I continued cut paper as my hobby for two years. After that, I got into art school and enrolled in mixed media and printmaking for four years. I started three-dimensional paper cut in the first year of school,” she added. Today, we are featuring some of her cut paper sculptures placed inside illuminated glass vessels. Check out some of her beautiful masterpieces in the gallery below. More info: Website | Facebook | Instagram Ayumi tried various mediums such as clay, metal, water color, wood, etc in art school but she didn’t feel any connection with any of them. “I naturally feel a connection when I’m working on paper. There’s no description, I just love paper,” she says. The artist further explains that “Kami” is the Japanese word that means god, divinity, or spirit. It also means ‘paper. “In Japanese worship and in my religion of Shinto, invisible “Kami”; spirits dwell in various objects and events, places, as well as in our houses and in our bodies,” she elaborated. Ayumi uses her technique to express thankfulness to the “Kami” spirits for having been born in this life. She says, “Each cut,each page is a prayer. My process helps me to be quiet and clean up my mind in meditation or prayer. Through cutting the paper I feel purify my soul. By interacting with the “Kami” Spirit – material, I can connect to the “Kami” spirit’s world and our world.” Ayumi’s paper sculptures are perfect balance of Yin and Yang – “Paper represents Yin, also represents material/our sensible world. The cut out space represents Yang, also represents immaterial/invisible world,” she says. She further explains “Light represents spirit and life. The sun rises and breaths life into the world.” The artist says, “I make space/Yang into paper/Yin, Yin and Yang melt together and become one finished piece, then light it up, light imbue spirit and life reside in.” At last, Ayumi emphasized, “I believe my piece is a place to meet the material world and immaterial world.”
Image source: Ayumi Shibata
