Silke Bonde
- 3 days ago
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Silke Bonde invented her own way of working, and she calls it the paper leaf method. She cuts small, leaf-shaped pieces into cotton paper, each turned a slightly different way, then lifts them and paints them one by one. The effect is close to painting in tiny dots, the colors mixing in your eye the way they do in Impressionism or Pointillism.
Light matters a lot in the pieces. As it crosses the surface, the small cuts cast shadows that give the work depth. The results feel like picture and object at once, and their delicate look reflects how fragile the natural world is.
She is based in Copenhagen and treats the cotton paper itself as part of the work. Again and again her work comes back to how people and nature relate, and to a feeling of longing and distance.
