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This paper art is quite stunning and original. Artist Peter Callesen has done a great job creating realistic paper cuts that bring A4 paper sheets to life // Image above: Running Fire II.

Above: Butterflies trying to escape their shadow

Peter’s site explains:

[...] Some of the small paper cuts relate to a universe of fairy tales and romanticism, as for instance Impenetrable Castle inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale The Steadfast Tin Soldier, in which a tin soldier falls in love with a paper ballerina, living in a paper castle. Other paper cuts are small dramas in which small figures are lost within and threatened by the huge powerful nature. Others again are turning the inside out, or letting the front and the back of the paper meet – dealing with impossibility, illusions, and reflections… [read more]

Above: Distant wish II

Above: Eismeer

Above: Impenetrable Castle II

Above: In the Shadow of Anorchid

Above: The Dying Swan II

Above: The Short Distance Between Time and Shadow

Above: White Hand

All Paper Cut images above are copyright © Peter Callesen. Please visit his site Petercallesen.com for more great work.

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