Peter Callesen: Paper art.

I've been looking into using paper and negative space to create a space such as a house or building which is clearly empty, and turning the idea around so that the space is clearly being lived in or used, by lighting it up. 
There are a lot of artists who I can relate to this idea, however I have found one who uses paper- not in a similar way to what i want to do but in an extremely interesting way. 


Peter Callesen uses plain pieces of white paper (A4 etc) and cuts out imagery- while still leaving it attached to the paper.

To create the 3-D study sections Callesen uses only the paper that he has cut out. I love the detail created and the fact that he only uses white paper in a lot of cases.  I also like that the negative space is still part of the study. Sometimes the negative space relates to the 3-D image more than other times, which I am particularly attracted to

"A large part of my work is made from A4 sheets of paper.It is probably the most common and consumed media used for carrying information today. This is why we rarely notice the actual materiality of the A4 paper. By taking away all the information and starting from scratch using the blank white A4 paper sheet for my creations, I feel I have found a material that we are all able to relate to and at the same time the A4 paper sheet is neutral and open to fill with different meanings." - Peter Callesen http://www.petercallesen.com/index/index2.html 

What a cool guy. Check him out:

http://www.petercallesen.com/index.html 

 is neutral and open to fill with different meaning.