Su Blackwell creates art from the pages of books, effectively lifting the stories from out of the text into delicate, three dimensional scenes. I find her work inspirational and magical in that the scenes she creates from the paper alone are incredibly ornate and stylised - I feel that you can easily distinguish which book she is describing in the designs because she chooses such emotive and natural stories for which to tell in her pieces. She describes this on her website; "It is the delicacy, the slight feeling of claustrophobia, as if these characters, the landscape have been trapped inside the book all this time and are now suddenly released." This concept has made an impression on me in that she is reworking something that is somewhat redundant and life-less on the outside, and releasing what is inside to visually reanimate the story.
www.sublackwell.co.uk
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