papercutting – tricia burmeister

The internet is a crazy thing. Once, before, an online travel guide company found a picture I had taken of the Seattle Public Library and asked to use it in their guide for the city. Now, somehow a production company in Tokyo found one of my papercuttings and asked to use it in a segment of the TV show Tokyo Eye about cool cafes. So, there will be glimpses of my art broadcast online and to Japan on July 24 and September 10! From what I’ve been told about the segment, I wish we had cafes this awesome in the US (that’s a teaser to make you curious). Here’s the info:

Tokyo Eye #299: Cool Cafés

■Overseas broadcast

NHK World TV

Wednesday, 7/24 9:30～9:58（Japan）

To determine where the show will be broadcast in various regions, enter the information on this page.

http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/tv/howto/index.html

For program times in other time zones enter the date and time zone on this page.

http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/tv/schedule/index.html

■ Live net streaming

Wednesday, 7/24 9:30～9:58（Japan）

http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/index.html

For program times in other time zones enter the date and time zone on this page.

http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/tv/schedule/index.html

After a lovely weekend of fun with Rooms C, and professional meanderings at the ARLIS/NA conference in Boston, life is back to normal…watching hockey, making soups….whooo the Canadiens just beat Washington!!! Anyways, what I wanted to post is an image of the first papercutting I’ve made in a long time. It is/was for a friend’s birthday, which is good motivation to make any crafty item. I think part of what kept me from making new cuttings for awhile is a feeling that I’d exhausted the easily accessible patterns, and was daunted by the thought of making my own (though I’d done it a couple times, with minimal success). Well, this cutting is the result of me morphing together 3 traditional Polish patterns from the book Folk Art Designs From Polish Wycinanki and Swiss and German Scherenschnitte. (or they might be from this book, I can’t remember). I wonder if this counts as a derivative work?!

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