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- December 21st, 2009
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CutPaperNinja has posted a new entry on: PaperCuts
Vixen (Inari)
size: 17.2 x 29 cm ( about 6 3/4 x 11 1/2″ ) medium: cut and torn paper on wood click here or the image for large-scale foxiness Blinded by cleverness into seeing only cleverness, undone by our own…
- December 16th, 2009
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Words of Carrion Comfort
size: 17.2 x 29 cm ( about 6 3/4 x 11 1/2″ ) medium: cut paper on wood click here or the image to crow louder If there ever was an argument for spontaneous generation, it is the carrion-craving cro…
- December 13th, 2009
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2010, a Year in Paper
Click to see a bigger preview The 2010 Cut Paper Art Calendar, featuring 12 of my favorite (and seasonally appropriate) works is now available. Made entirely of cut and torn paper (and often wood) in…
- December 9th, 2009
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Gallery Show: EtoEtceTora at Gallery kópis Tokyo
Ooh, this is gonna take a little work. The title of the show, I mean. See, I totally didn’t get it myself until my stupendous wife explained the triple-layer pun to me. I don’t know if I…
- December 2nd, 2009
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From the Bamboo Forests of the Night (sold)
size: 8 x 10 inches medium: cut paper on board Good old William Blake knew what he was talking about. Entangled in the vines and bamboo of the shadowy forest, no other animal has quite the same com…
- November 27th, 2009
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Down on the Bottom Again Print Surfaces
The fourth and final giclée in the 2009 Autumn series of prints, Down on the Bottom Again stands semi-patiently waiting in the shop. You can read about the original art here. I’m wracking my b…
- November 25th, 2009
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The Flow That Will Not Be Stemmed
size: 16 1/2 x 11 3/4 inches ( 42 x 29.7 cm ) medium: cut paper on wood click here to go with a bigger flow! Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change – this is the rhythm of…
- November 23rd, 2009
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Expectations of a Red Threaded Print
The third giclée in the 2009 Autumn series of prints, Red Thread Expectations is, I admit, a day or two late. However, I have enough good news that, not only will you forgive it’s tardiness, b…
- November 19th, 2009
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- November 12th, 2009
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A Welcome Print
Introducing the second in the 2009 Autumn series of prints: A Welcome Messenger. Honestly, I have no idea why this one took so long to make. There’ve been tons of requests for it, and it hold…
- November 10th, 2009
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Gallery Show: The Way of Flow @ C.A.V.E. Gallery, Venice, CA
I’m not sure which is weirding me out more: that I’m the featured artist for this show, or that it ends in 2010. I mean, 2010?!? Can you believe it? I’ll update this entry with so…
- October 30th, 2009
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Paper Mice and New Prints
The last time I kicked out new prints, I was flabbergasted to discover that it had been a year since the previous series had come out. I swore not to make that mistake again (this year…). Toda…
- October 25th, 2009
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- October 11th, 2009
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CutPaperNinja has posted a new entry on: PaperCuts
A Hero Must Know How to Accessorize
size: 11 3/4 x 8 5/16″ medium: cut and torn paper on wood click here to Super-size her! A superhero uniform has only a minimum of necessary features. Gloves and boots are always a good idea…
- October 10th, 2009
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The Aftermath of Superheroes and Storm Gods
It seems strangely appropriate that the day after the American Comics 2009 and Raijin Fujin exhibits drew to a close, Japan got hit with the biggest typhoon in ages. There was about a week of rain le…
- September 29th, 2009
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Gallery Show - 風雷暴 / Fujin Raijin Exhibition @ Gallery G2
Like the ebony and ivory keys on a piano; like checks and balances; like peanut butter and jelly, Fujin and Raijin complete each other. The Japanese Gods of Wind and Thunder (respectively), they are…
- September 23rd, 2009
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Heaven Is for Virgins
size: 7 7/8 x 7 7/8″ (20 x 20cm) medium: dimensional cut paper Compared to the mayfly-like lifespans of us puny humans, the stars are infinite. So too is their power to captivate our minds an…
- September 21st, 2009
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Gallery Show - American Comics Exhibition 2009 ~Superheroes~
Guess who’s back?! (hint: it’s me!) Yes, I am again at one with the world electronical. Like just about every superhero ever (with the current exception of Bruce Wayne, who is still ext…
- September 15th, 2009
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The Perils of Digital Dependence
Catastrophic hard drive failure is exactly as fun as it sounds. Which is to say, no fun at all. Especially when it hits two times in under a year. Yes, it’s been a little quiet around these pa…
- September 7th, 2009
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Feeling Social 2: Radical Social Stationery
The Facebook button was looking so lonely and forlorn and whining like a lost little puppy, I just had to make him some friends. ‘Cuz, y’know, he just wants to be social. yeah… Any…
- September 3rd, 2009
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Sky Bear
size: 5 7/8 x 5 7/8″ medium: dimensional cut paper The power of myths and fables lies in their ability to magnify human traits, feats and frailties. The gods and men and monsters who inhabit…
- September 2nd, 2009
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Guest Shots: Blogs of Rarified Beauty
Rather than picking out one specific artist for this episode of Guest Shots, I thought it would be nice to show a little appreciation for a couple people who are spreading a nice, thick coat of beauty…
- August 24th, 2009
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No Such Things As Too Much Spandex
size: 7 7/8 x 11 7/8″ (and more than 1/2″ thick) medium: cut and torn paper on wood I usually don’t think to snap photos of anything I make, so I’m awful glad that Kevin Conn…
- August 21st, 2009
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Avoid the Roid! (The Blistering Lava-Roid)
size: 7 7/8 x 11 7/8″ (and more than 1/2″ thick) medium: cut and torn paper on wood click here or the image for more girth! Today I have discovered that I am not a comedy writer. For ho…
- August 17th, 2009
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Feeling Social
So, I finally caved. Oh, I’ve been on Facebook for ages now keeping tabs on my friends back in the US and around the world. But I’ve finally gone and made a fan page. It’s just one…
- August 4th, 2009
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Guest Shot - Fumiha Tanaka
So, I’m a dunderhead. Don’t believe me? Here’s the proof: This past Saturday, Cocotte Cafe over in Iidabashi opened up with a small sample of my work for the month of August. I…
- July 26th, 2009
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Slow Summertime at the Cocotte Cafe
Not far from the station in Iidabashi lies a quaint little coffee place named Cocotte Cafe. It’s a cozy little joint, decorated in clean white and warm wood, and each month they display the wor…
- July 23rd, 2009
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Guinea-pigs Wanted
Sigh, I’d been so good putting up new work all this past month. Sadly, I have to break my streak this week. And on top of that, I need to ask all y’all a teensy tiny favor! The nerve of…
- July 16th, 2009
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Chatting with Build/Make/Craft/Bake
Wendy over at Build/Make/Craft/Bake was kind enough to sit down with me (at our separate computers on opposite sides of the pacific expanse) and chat for a couple minutes about my work, my process, cr…
- July 13th, 2009
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Your Touch, It Does Something to Me (sold)
size: 8 x 10 inches medium: cut paper on wood click here or the image for a bigger caress Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace. -Hindu Prince Gautama Siddharta, the fou…
- July 12th, 2009
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New In the Shop - Laughing Shark Prints!
I am ecstatic to announce that two of my most requested pieces are now available as open edition prints: We All Laugh Together and The Golden Sea, It Has Teeth. I was shocked to see that it’s…
- July 9th, 2009
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Guest Shot - Nishi
It struck me recently that I spend an awful lot of time on this here blog talking about myself. Not that I’m in danger of running out of stuff to chatter about, but sometimes it’s nice to…
- July 5th, 2009
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Oh, The Things You Say On a Winter’s Day
size: 8 x 10 inches medium: cut and torn paper on wood click here or the image for bigger whisperings Shaky and trembling. Icy winds bite deep, freezing to the core, to the very center. Until a wh…
- July 4th, 2009
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- July 3rd, 2009
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- July 1st, 2009
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- June 28th, 2009
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Regrets of a Mad Scientist
size: 18 x 25.5 cm (7 1/4 x 10 1/8 inches) medium: cut paper on wood Worn out by waging constant war against the laws of physics and nature, one minor miscalculation can lead a superb scientist down…
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- June 24th, 2009
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Gallery Show - Battle Royal @ Gallery 1988 SF (updated)
update: The preview of the artwork is online now! Every time I read the name of this show, I can’t help thinking about Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome: Ten artists enter, one artist leaves!. Or Ja…
- June 23rd, 2009
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This Humble Contagion
size: 18 x 25.5 cm (about 7″ x 10″ or so) medium: cut paper on wood click here of the image for giant-size floating pod-folk What could that be, I wonder, drifting into the brain of the…
- June 19th, 2009
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This Humble Contagion - WIP the last
size: 18 x 25.5 cm (about 7″ x 10″ or so) medium: cut paper on wood on tatami Here are the last few work-in-progress shots of “This Humble Contagion”, not necessarily in orde…
