Helicopter leaf

Helicopter Leaf, hand-cut paper, 3 layers, 8x8 inches, 2012

I have no idea what the real name for these little guys are, but they'll always be helicopter leafs to me.

Getting ready for the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition

Vintage Horseman, hand-cut paper, 3 layers, 8x10 inches, 2012

Sailors, hand-cut paper, 3 layers, 8x10 inches, 2012

I'm a participating artist in the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition this year. This is my first year doing this show, and I am getting very excited as the weekend creeps closer. I've been working on smaller pieces. Here are a couple of them. 

Auschwitz

Untitled (Auschwitz), hand-cut paper, 4 layers, 25x19 inches, 2012

I traveled to Poland on a whim last February. I was completing an artist residency in The Hague, The Netherlands when I found a cheap flight to Warsaw, and said "why not?". From Warsaw, I realized that I had to go to Krakow to pay my respects to a vital, though morose, part of history. This piece is based on a photograph that I took in Auschwitz. The panel that accompanies this room reads as follows: The washroom where women stripped before execution, then they were led in twos to (the) yard and shot at the "death wall".