Eric Standley is an American lasercutting artist that creates incredibly complex papercuts.
His work is very similar to mine and I use him as an inspiration. His inspiration is derived from the geometry that is found in Gothic and Islamic Architecture. These are very similar inspirations to my own.
I find his work fascinating because of the detail that is involved in it. My work differs in the sense that I do not use a laser cutter but cut from hand. Through this I have less precision, tears and inaccuracies in symmetrical geometry but feel this also gives my work more of an authenticity and is more true to my concept.
I enjoy that my paper cuts are not perfect and I like their uniqueness that it gives them, each piece will always be different which would be an attribute that I would lose if I began to laser cut my designs.
Since my concept is bringing the past and present together I feel that it is best to adopt past methods of working by hand than with computer aided design.
