Leaf Cut Art by Lorenzo Durán
Instead of using paper, artist Lorenzo Durán uses leaves to make papercut art. If you think about how delicate a leaf is, you can imagine how challenging and intricately painstaking each piece of art must be to create. He must have a very steady hand!
[via My Modern Met]
Wow, these are really amazing! I can’t imagine doing something so intricate. Really beautiful!
A steady hand, or a laser cutter.
These are stunning! I love the Andy Goldsworthy style of art that requires the ability to appreciate a deteriorating form simply for what it is in a moment. The leaves will crumble because that’s what organic matter does, but the beauty never fades. Thank you for sharing!
laser cutter would FRY those, gotta be by hand. beautiful stuff
Wow,I am memsmorized! Speachless and twitterpatted at the same time!
How on earth can this be done?
Dye cut machine no doubt.
This boggles my mind, how he was able to accomplish something so intricate. I’ve photographed leaves countless times in macro, but Lorenzo is the first artist I’ve come across who creates a piece of art this way. Amazing!
Not to take away from Lorenzo Duran, because the work is excellent, but he is not the first to do this sort of precise cutting with leaves:
http://www.janetpihlblad.com/pages/leafwork_thumbpage.html
Amazing art!
So dainty and fragile. Light shinning through them would look lovely, creating different effects!
Amazing work!!! so beautifully done….
The Leafcut was sobeautiful-It reminded me of the antique hand-cut Linen from 1900′s.
How inspiring!
Thank You