Peter Callesen is a Danish artist, and his papercut work is among the most fascinating I've ever seen. Not only is his artwork exquisitely detailed and precise, but he has the most ingenious eye for combining positive and negative space into something that is so much more than the sum of the two. Taken together, his works seem to be hinting at some quiet insight into the connection between the visible and the invisible, reality and shadows, being and not being...
A ruin evokes the shadow of the construction from which it came.
A snail crawling on a footprint, or the shadow of a foot descending upon a snail?
A person, saved from falling by his own shadow.
And all this from a simple sheet of white paper!
Click here for the artist's website. It's really worth a browse.
