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Su Blackwell’s Creepy Book World

Using a scalpel, Sue Blackwell cuts and glues the pages of books to create these eerie miniature scenes.

“Paper has been used for communication since its invention; either
between humans or in an attempt to communicate with the spirit world. I
employ this delicate, accessible medium and use irreversible,
destructive processes to reflect on the precariousness of the world we
inhabit and the fragility of our life, dreams and ambitions.

It is the delicacy, the slight feeling of claustrophobia, as if these
characters, the landscape have been trapped inside the book all this
time and are now suddenly released. A number of the compositions have an
urgency about them, the choices made for the cut-out people from the
illustrations seem to lean towards people on their way somewhere, about
to discover something, or perhaps escaping from something. And the
landscapes speak of a bleak mystery, a rising, an awareness of the air.”
– Su Blackwell.

Su Blackwell’s website
Courtauld Institute of Art website