Masayo Fukuda is considered a master of kirie, a unique style of Japanese paper cutting art. To conclude the year 2018 the artist showed on Twitter what he thinks is his best piece of the year: a layered octopus. The kirie is a practice of religious origin, the Japanese variant is presumably derived from liturgical ceremonies of 700 AD. The carving technique is based on the creation of the negative of the figure, which is then carved to give life to the design.
The posts on Instagram better understand what it means to practice kirie:
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The overall beauty of the work and its value, are given precisely by the fragility of the paper, which makes this technique very scrupulous to practice. If you want to know other works, you can take a look at Masayo website here, in the meantime take a look at the images of this incredible work.
