This Female Artist Turns A Single Sheet Of Paper Into An Intricate Octopus

Cast your eye on this complex octopus to see if it’s a drawing or a painting. Well, both of the options are completely wrong, as this masterpiece is a paper art handcrafted from a single sheet of paper by a Japanese artist.

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More commonly acknowledged as Kirie in Japan, this conventional art of cutting a single sheet of paper consists of using a single sheet of white paper to produce complicated shapes, requiring the artist to have an absolutely steady hand and unwavering patience.

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The reason for this is that the art of paper cutting consumes a large amount of time to complete the detailing, together with immense creativity to execute. The product is placed against a dark background to unravel its true form, after the cutting process.

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Masayo Fukuda is a famous Japan-based Kirie artist, who is famous for her paper-cutting artworks. The artist has been performing Kirie for two and half a decade, widely recognized as one of the best Kirie creators, with art pieces becoming the center of amazement not only in Japan but also around the world. And it’s this elaborate octopus that is regarded as her masterpiece by Fukuda herself.

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This elaborate designed was selected by Fukuda as her best work in recent years, and people are completely persuaded. Take a look at this design and you might believe that it’s a painting on a black canvas with fine-tipped pens. Some people just cannot believe that this is actually produced from a single sheet of paper.
The Japanese artist carefully cut every detail to illustrate a realistic image of a life-sized octopus, from its bulging eyes to its rounded body and eight long limbs. Fukuda used multiple textured sections for the arm suckers and swirling patterns on the top to reach the appearance of patterned laces, resulting in a magnificent art piece absolutely doesn’t appear to have come out of paper.