Tile and responsibility statement from cover; edition statement and creation date handwritten inside back cover on paper onlay. Artist book. Beatrice Coron and Colette Fu combine their talents to produce a six-panel work displaying activities in the lives of Chinese communities. They tell these visual stories of daily life through papercutting and pop-ups. Concept and papercutting by Beatrice Coron. Pop-ups, photography, and design by Colette Fu. -- In part supplied by vendor. Accordion fold structure; Arches paper; digital photography; covers bound with gold brocade fabric over boards and tied with black silk string tipped with bone closure. Limited edition of 8 copies numbered, dated and signed by the artists. "For the last 30 years, I have been exploring visual storytelling in artist books paper cutting, animations and public art. I start any project with a concept that unfold into a story with many possible interpretations. These stories are about identities and trans-formations or how our changes are inherent to a learning process: physically, spiritually or metaphorically. My process is first to cut paper with a utility knife, sometimes the work is transposed to digital techniques for fabrication or animation.My personal history fueled my curiosity for stories and questioned my perception of realities. I have been fascinated by the relation of people to their space and the sense of belonging. Using papercutting where everything is cut from a single piece of Tyvek, the profusion of individual stories makes a coherent whole world." -- Artist statement from Béatrice Coron website. "With pop-up books, I want to eliminate the boundaries between people, the book, installation, photography, craft, sculpture..." -- Artist statement from Colette F website.
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