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"If my words could fall like leaves, What bonfires they could make!"-Shogun
My favorite of the three book cutting projects.
Scene erected from the pages of James Clavell's Shogun ....
This actually caused my inner book nerd a bit of pain. I've long had this book on my book shelf and have yet to read it... And now a majority of it has been diced up into cherry blossom petals... =u=; I'm such a baddddd person.
Ah well.
All the illustrations are MINE this time. Yup- Trees, kimonos and cranes are really fun to draw!
And hopefully that pond is noticeable....
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Art and carvings- Holly Hansel
Novel- Shogun, James Clavell
was a scene at all like this in the actual book
Book carving idea- Su Blackwell
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Oh wow! Thank you so very much :3
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Thank you~! That part is what took the most time/ supplied the petals you see everywhere xD
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As it should! She was the definite inspiration for this project <3
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Amazing. Pity that the book didn't make it 
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oh ho? I was not even aware there was a film version- One of these days I must check it out xD
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I don't really know if it was an adaptation of this book. It just came to my mind. The main character was played by Richard Chamberlain.
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Gorgeous! I love book carvings!
And the quote is particularly close to my heart too.
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The imagery is just wonderful - so original, and for a tree addict like me, this is manna from heaven.
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Thank you! And yes- carving the trees was my favorite part too! I appreciated the irony of creating trees out of paper- almost as if the paper's 'life' was all coming full circle xD
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Very beautiful and creative.
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I work in a library so that side of me is saying "noooooooooo! spare that poor book!"
But then the creative, artistic, side of me is saying "holy God, that is stunning".
I'm gonna listen to the creative side and fav this
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Understandable- I was an avid Library volunteer back in the day (pff, that being a only few months ago xD), so I did suffer from internal anguish at dicing up a book I had not yet read.
However, the outcome was worth it- thank you so very much!
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So lovely! Movingly serine. Fits beautifuly with traditional eastern art.
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Thank you so very much <3 I love working with that medium too~
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I really like the scene! The crane is so beautiful, and the pond and petals really add a great sense of depth to it.
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How can such a diabolical act such as cutting up a book make such beautiful art!? TT_TT
Nothing makes sense anymore
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that's really good! the kimono girl is pretty C:
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Yes I did, thank you very much xD
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OMG! nooo XD! poor book!
LOL nice job though
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Lovely book.
Great idea of the snow-like paper everywhere.
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Thank you~ I had more than enough scraps from the other page cuttings to make some left over cherry page blossoms. xD
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this i really purtty
and also lol at your authors comment cos i also have Shogun on my shelf for a long time and have yet to read it 
i'd like to say that maybe i could try and attempt something similar with said book... but i can't cut up my babies.
i keep telling my other half that if there's a fire then i will be saving the books and not him
some might call me a bookworm but that honestly doesn't illustrate the level of obsessed i'm at lol
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