Someone from ArtPapers sent me a link to this persons work a few weeks ago and I'm still utterly fascinated with it. I'm actually beginning to see trends in my own tastes, and you dear reader may see them as well. There was the Brian Dettmer works that swept me off my feet earlier last year and now Peter Callesen.
How can you not find these fascinating? Single pieces of paper that literally come to life. Callesen creates characters and entire worlds with simple snips of scissors. Some of the work is even disturbing. For example, the dying birds. They are not real, but there is still such a heart-rending emotion attached to the visual of these beautiful, delicate little forms struggling. You can almost hear the tiny thumps of their panicked hearts. 
I very much like his explanation of these particular works. "A common theme in many of my works is a reinterpretation of classical fairy tales as well as a more general interest in memory in connection to childhood - for instance in my performances Castle, Folding and Jukebox. These playful performances exist in the lost land of childhood, between dream and reality and it is in this meeting or confrontation of these two conditions, in a kind of Utopian embodiment, that these works of art become alive, often in a tragicomic way.
This interest for the romantic is extended in my later exhibitions White Shadows at Esbjerg Art Museum and From dust to dusk, but here with less focus on the confrontation between dream and reality leaving more space for the poetic aspect as well as the possibility of a reality behind or within the dream."
Please do visit his site. These are just a few photographs that are available. I'd LOVE to see his work in person.
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