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Degrees Of Lightness installation, 40 ft. wall, construction paper 2006 Jen Stark

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Line ALL : Two-dimensional circles jumping out of the frame Detail of Production Line: Triangle, Circle, Square

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11 x 14, hand-cut stack of construction paper

Do you have a certain method of cutting?

For example, how did you achieve these multiple layers in “Anatomical

Evolution”?

Afterglow

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Resembling geographic depictions of differences in altitude: “Microscopic Entry.”

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I cut each layer of paper one by one and then put them together.

I always cut by hand using an X-Acto knife. It is a bit time-consuming, but I like it!

Look at these intriguing, repetitive shapes like eruptions by Miami-based Jen Stark:

Her three-dimensional, kaleidoscopic paper art is simply hand-made with dozens of layers of thick coloured paper. With her abstract geometrical patterns just shown in the new Tactile book by DGV

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Triangle

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Triangle Roll

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Square

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Square Roll

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Circle

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Circle Roll

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Intricate paper works resembling three-dimensional objects PRIMARIES-all Red Blue Yellow

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PRIMARIES - Blue

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Roughly how many layers goes into

one piece?

PRIMARIES - Blue

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It can range from about thirty to eighty, depending on the

piece.

PRIMARIES - Red

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And how do you choose the order of the colours in the

stack?

PRIMARIES - Red

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I usually buy a stack and then arrange it how I think the colours look good together.

PRIMARIES - Yellow

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I try to spread them out a bit so they are mixed up and contrasting colours are next to each other.

PRIMARIES - Yellow

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Color Gradient card stock mounted on archival art Jen Stark

Coriolis Effect ROLL

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Tendency of any body on the Earth’s surface to drift to the side due to the planet’s rotation is called the “Coriolis Effect “

Here, we see paper drifting to many sides Coriolis Effect ROLL

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Coriolis Effect DETAIL

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Point Of Exposure

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Point Of Exposure Roll

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Cone Ambiguous Jen Satrk

A metaphor for people’s

multiple inside layers…

“Cylinder”: Paper Cut

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The “Cylinder Paper Cut” with a solid surface that’s cut open caught my eye:

Could we see the paper layers as a symbolic representation of the inner layers of people, or objects…?

Definitely. You are one of the first people to mention this.

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I like to make the insides very colourfully confusing.

You can relate it to people or things being so complicated and elaborate on the inside. Yet the outside layer is usually white to show that something may look simple and ordinary on the outside – but the inside is beaming with colour!

The Mandala-style “Untitled.” Sculpture 03

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About the mysterious “Untitled”: Is it inspired by

kind of a Mandala? How do you develop it?

It is mainly inspired by geometric patterns. I just cut a shape and slowly change it as the layers progress. With these kind of sculptures I usually don’t know what the end design will look like.

The Mandala-style “Untitled.”

Sculpture

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Paper Anomaly

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Sculpture Burst

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Piece of an Infinite Whole

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Piece of an Infinite Whole Roll And the same hole - with a depth of 4 ft and a diameter of 2 ft Jen Stark

I like the fact that it is so common and usually used two-dimensionally… and I’m trying to show what it can do

View Inside Peephole ALL: sculpturally and how much it can be transformed with such little changes. Jen Stark

View Inside Peephole … and the awesome, illuminated

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A beautiful “Mold Study.”

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When did you start with your… can I call it“kaleidoscope paper art” ?

I began making paper sculptures when I went to study in France for a semester.

Since I could only take two suitcases with me for five months, I decided to purchase art supplies when I got there. Mold Study

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The Euro was highand everything was pretty expensive, so I decided to get the cheapest but coolest looking thing in the art store – a stack of construction paper!

I startedexperimenting with what paper could turn intoand it took off from there.

“Assorted Explosion”

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About your lovely eruptive “Assorted Explosion:” Is it meant to depict an explosion in its early stage?

Detail of “Assorted Explosion:” imagine how long these most delicate cuts might have taken…

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Exactly! Usually, stacks of construction paper are sold in “assortments” of colour.

So, I wanted to play with that word as well as what it looks like it’s doing: exploding.

A very colourful kind of explosion

and there may be many paper cuts.

How To Become a Millionaire In 100 Days 1,000,000 pieces of hand-cut paper 2007

Jen Stark crée des morceaux de papier étonnants trés différents de ce que j’aurais pu dejà voir.

Qui a su que vous pourriez prendre une pile de papier et créez un chef d’oeuvre ?

The new issue is now on its way…superb cover artwork by Jen Stark

Jen Stark – Sculpture

A la recherche de nouveaux papertoys je suis tombé

sur de belles sculptures de papier.

Real leaves from the folk’s backyard, meticulously cut out… Jen Satrk

Multiple layers as metaphor for the many layers a personality may have…

How poetic cardboard can be! So, apart from your paper explosions, what inspired your beautifulwhat inspired your beautiful,

fragile paper leaves as silhouettesfragile paper leaves as silhouettes?

I live in Miami, Florida, and these leaves came off of trees from my I live in Miami, Florida, and these leaves came off of trees from my parent’s backyard. parent’s backyard.

They are called They are called sea-grape treessea-grape trees because the trees produce grape- because the trees produce grape-looking berries. looking berries.

I was searching for something to cut into and I decided to try a leaf I was searching for something to cut into and I decided to try a leaf because it is pretty thick and strong.because it is pretty thick and strong.

I was inspired by how leaves can naturally turn into skeletons I was inspired by how leaves can naturally turn into skeletons over timeover time – losing the green part and keeping only the veins. – losing the green part and keeping only the veins.

I wanted to simulate this with my X-Acto.

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