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“我喜欢事物看起来一样，流动在一起，保持一致。我喜欢黑色和白色。我喜欢控制自己，清楚地知道自己在看什么，我将得到什么，这一切看起来总是那么美好。“——Maude White

Artist and self-described craftsperson Maude White (previously) captures gentle moments of beauty and grace in her meticulously detailed paper cut artworks. White has worked in paper for the last several years, first exploring her signature medium with simple silhouettes and popup books. The New York-based artist now focuses on the organic forms of female portraits, flowers, and birds. “Every piece I create has its own identity,” White explains. “The knife, and me, and the paper are all in a dialog together, all talking and getting along. The last thing I do is cut it out of the surrounding paper. It comes alive, or is born, and we meet each other for the first time. It’s a completely living thing apart from me.”

“When I first started cutting paper it was not a career,” White explains to Colossal. “That’s really the way to approach anything, to do it for the joy of it and use it as a way to learn.” By sharing her work online with a Squarespace portfolio site, the self-taught artist has been able to reach a worldwide audience and find success. In addition to her gallery-ready original papercuts, White has partnered with Abrams Books and Paralax Press to release two books—Leading with Love and Brave Birds—that bring her artwork and message of uplift to life.

She shares that the methodical and meditative practice of cutting paper has been a healthy way to express her desire for order and control. In shaping her online presence as an in-demand artist, White explains that it’s very important to her to share this sense of safety and wellbeing with others: “I like all of my work to be comforting or a safe space. Beauty is a form of love. Creating something beautiful allows people to experience love when they look at it.”

White shares that creating her website on Squarespace allows her to feel assured that her website stands up to the finesse of her artwork. “I like things to look the same, flow together, and stay consistent. I love black and white. I like having control and knowing exactly what i’m looking at and what i’m going to get, and it’s always going to look beautiful.”

BIRDS

FLOWERS

WOMEN

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Fox International Art

理念与使命

Idea and Mission

“艺术是一棵树摇动另一棵树，一朵云推动另一朵云，一个灵魂唤醒另一个灵魂。作为艺术家应该承担着改变人们生活的责任，应该学会成为真正的创作者，而不仅仅是当做一个职业。”

Fox是首家研发了“线下线上1+1”作品集跨界课程体系的国际艺术工作室。旗下还设有展览馆、产品开发基地、设计师经纪公司等多个部门。核心团队由英国伦敦中央圣马丁、美国帕森斯、英国皇家等顶尖艺术学院海归设计师、艺术家以及专家教授在2010年于伦敦和北京共同创立。

Fox国际艺术坚持传达狐狸精神-无畏、自由和颠覆。保持的使命是启发创意的无限延伸，倾尽全力创造平等机会、提倡多样性、充满活力与革新精神的工作环境，这也使工作室能吸引最有才能和创造力的设计师团队。不同文化的冲击，力求独特、创意、自由、甚至是极端反叛的艺术氛围，创意在这里并不是纸上谈兵。

Fox的设计师与学员，无论是背景还是专业能力都是业界首屈一指，与众多知名一线品牌、著名博物馆合作过，如大英博物馆、V&A博物馆、德国国立宝石博物馆、Gucci、Cartier、Alexander McQueen、施华洛世奇、Gareth Pugh、John Galliano、Dior、Alexander Wang、Giles Deacon、陈奕迅、余文乐等。