Meticulously Crafted Collages Use Scissors Like You Would a Paintbrush

Using the scis­sors as her paint­brush, Rocío Fer­nán­dez Fuks engages in paper col­lage mak­ing of sto­ry­book scenes.  Her lat­est series is called For­est & Ocean, and it depicts three places—two tree­hous­es and a meet­ing underwater.

Rocío has a great cut paper style that mim­ics a brush or a pen. Her shapes and edges are imper­fect; if you look care­ful­ly, you can see the pen­cil lines that she’s drawn and then cuts from. The result, of tying linework so close­ly to cut­ting, is that it has movement—an apt descrip­tion for a shack sway­ing among the branch­es as well as the sea crea­tures nav­i­gat­ing around plants and a fish­er­man’s net.

This isn’t the first time I’ve mar­veled over Rocío’s col­lage paper art. In 2017, she cre­at­ed Go on Paper—a cel­e­bra­tion, among oth­er things, of ped­al-pow­ered vehicles.