Ann Wood's Paper Plants and Insects
- Category: Ideas & Inspiration
- Practices: Carving
Each of us has memories of crafts, which with the approach of International women's day always forced to do in school lessons of work or drawing. Glue-stained daffodils and poppies, daisies and roses... although in these ugly creations made of colored cardboard, it was hardly possible to guess the belonging to a particular type of plant. But our mothers were still happy with this gift.
Ann Wood is a Minneapolis craftsman who cuts out stunning flowers and plants from paper. The perfection of the work is breathtaking!
The wizard creates realistic flowers, fruits, and insects using sharp embroidery scissors, wire, and tons of homemade paper. Anne decided to devote herself to this painstaking task, inspired by illustrations from old reference books on botany.
Making paper plants has transformed Anne's view of nature in a surprising way. Now she feels all the changes that are happening around her, for example, the transition from one time of year to another. Again and again, like a child, she watches the onset of spring: how plants, beetles and butterflies Wake up after a winter sleep. The needlewoman admits that it was such an incredible discovery for her that she still remains in deep admiration for the absolute perfection of the world of flora and fauna.
It's amazing how Anne transforms an ordinary material such as paper in the Botanical masterpieces. I think she's a real wizard!
Ann cuts out fruits and berries in full size, working through everything to the smallest detail:
It produces a little more insects than they actually are:
And here the cucumber looks especially appetizing, it seems, just from the garden:
Perfect hyacinth! Infinitely pleases with its beauty and does not need watering at all:
Ann seeks first of all not to copy the creations of nature, but to draw the viewer's attention to the miracle of all life, the fleeting beauty:
Ann's Studio used to be a welding workshop. With the help of her husband and a couple of cans of paint, the master turned this unsuitable room into a bright space with white walls, on which it is particularly advantageous to demonstrate flower compositions.
Although on a black background contrasting flowers and butterflies also look amazing:
Ann carves not only plants, but also the feathers of strange birds:
I admire Anne's skill, patience, perseverance, and thoroughness. How do you like such fine work?