I'm thinking something like what juli said. Papercutting is a physical activity, much more so than vector art: you hold the scissors in one hand and the paper in the other. You carefully squeeze the grips, continuously adjusting the relationship of the tool and the medium with input from at least three senses, sight, touch, and sound. Or maybe one hand holds the X-acto or other knife, guiding the tip of the blade along the imagined or faintly drawn line, or the straightedge held by the other hand. The result depends not just on your intentions - the start- and endpoints and curvature of the cut - but on the physical reality of the tool and the paper, and your actions in connecting them.
This is a much more physical craft than vector art, much more real to our flesh and blood, which after all are the source and substance of our minds. And no wonder that the product itself is more satisfying. Through all our m(b)illions of years, until the very latest tiniest fragment of one tick of evolution's clock, everything we have ever experienced has been shaped by such complex physical interactions, with nary a straight line to be seen except the occasional crystal cleavage in stone or sunbeam in cloudy sky.
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Date: 2014-05-10 08:36 pm (UTC)This is a much more physical craft than vector art, much more real to our flesh and blood, which after all are the source and substance of our minds. And no wonder that the product itself is more satisfying. Through all our m(b)illions of years, until the very latest tiniest fragment of one tick of evolution's clock, everything we have ever experienced has been shaped by such complex physical interactions, with nary a straight line to be seen except the occasional crystal cleavage in stone or sunbeam in cloudy sky.
And, of course, the perfect subject for "Corvi"!