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Born in Taiwan to Chinese parents, illustrator Wen Hsu moved to Costa Rica when she was two years old and has been living there ever since. She graduated in Architecture from the University of Costa Rica in 2000 and worked for a few years before deciding to go back to school for Illustration. She enrolled at the Rhode Island School of Design in 2004, and received a BA in Illustration with honors in 2006. Wen was awarded the 2008 Grand Prize in the ACCU Noma Concours for the illustrations for her story Nadi & Xiao Lan.
Many years later, I took up the paper cut technique again for a class assignment at RISD and made several paper cuts telling the story of my grandmother, a young widowed mother of five. [...] The other technique I adapted is the reverse appliqué technique used by Kuna women to make their Molas. I have always found Molas to be very attractive. It is a textile art, so its aesthetic “language” is a bit different from that of painting with a brush. Molas are used to enliven clothing, hence they are full of decorative elements with unexpected combinations of very bright colors, yet the subjects depicted are distilled to the simplest shapes." ... "It is hard to choose a favorite [technique]. I go through phases in which my attention latches on to a certain technique or style and doesn't let go until it's satisfied! At this moment I am still exploring the different ways to cut paper, although now I am interlocking instead of layering it. It feels like creating and playing with colorful puzzles, which is absolute fun. Hence for the time being, cutting and painting paper is my favorite technique: but I am certain that will change in the future..." Posted June 2009 |
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