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Bringing Blank Pages to Life with @maude_alta

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“I love the feel of paper, the immense possibility represented by every blank page,” says paper-carving artist Maude Alta White (@maude_alta), who lives in New York’s Hudson Valley. “I want to have a conversation with the paper, not on the paper.”

Maude begins her pieces with a pencil drawing, meticulously planning the positive and negative space before wielding a craft knife. “Cutting paper is very meditative, and I like the weight and decision of making every cut precise and meaningful,” she says. Creating portraits of women is especially challenging, Maud explains, because she has to connect the eyes, nose and mouth to the overall piece. “That’s why they all have hair blowing across their faces!”

Maude says she always starts in one corner and works her way across to avoid damaging sections as she goes. Some pieces take weeks to finish. “There is nothing quite as wonderful as holding up a piece I’ve cut and being able to see the world through it,” she says.

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