Cutting Away
Rachael Ashe
Rachael snips away all the negatives from cutting. Her cutting isn’t an acid-tongued bitch’s sharp words. This is not about the self harm of the painfully depressed. This is not a cosmetic surgeon capitalizing on vanity. No, this is the clarity of a razor-sharp edge.
With perfect pressure on a blade she slits and shears and slices, like a doctor determined to cure the intimidating emptiness of paper. Are they leaves, feathers or lozenges, are they developing into flowers or fur, does it even matter? This is a meditation, like the weave of a Persian carpet, or the curve of a perfectly thrown bowl.
And now, after many months of exploring her image in combination with her paper cut work, Rachael has taken the knife to a picture of her face, and created a mask that frames the artist within her art.
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