Floral-Human Hybrids Emerge From Single Sheets of Delicately Cut Paper

It’s been a while since I’ve shared the cut paper pieces by Kanako Abe. Her del­i­cate images are craft­ed from a sin­gle sheet of black paper. Using an X‑Acto knife (and a very steady hand), she mim­ics the likes of fur on for­est crea­tures and the veins of plants. Her most recent work fea­tures por­traits of women sur­round­ed by foliage—or some­times com­bined with it.

A selec­tion of Kanako’s orig­i­nal pieces are fea­tured in her exhi­bi­tion Bloom that’s now on view at Rare Device in San Fran­cis­co until Sep­tem­ber 16, 2019.