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Jun 2016
Unlocking the secrets of paper
By fold and crease
And light razor kiss
Spill ink and water
Watch the colors
Bleed and drip
And palpitate
Random strokes of fate
By wind and breath
Scatter white stars about
Bend and tuck and frame
A litte home
For my queen
Who wears my heart
In her crown
And a little book
A little book
With the simple tale
Of a paper love
A paper love
Turned
Real
Written while working on a paper sculpture of "Paper Queen"... "light razor kiss" is refrence to scoring the paper to get a clean fold in thicker papers such as watercolor or bristol board.  The figure and base were sheets of paper painted in acrylic ink and goauche, spreading and mixing the colors at random.  Then adding "stars" by blowing on the brush tip lightly filled with white ink.  Mmmyep...
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Akira Chinen
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Akira Chinen  122/M/texas
(122/M/texas)   
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