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Paper
Cut-paper collage of three overlapping coloured rectangles

Paper collage, three rooms

Cut-paper collage on heavy cotton stock, mounted under glass.

Medium
Cut paper, archival glue
Year
2025
Dimensions
45 cm × 35 cm
Palette
#93C5FD #FFD93D #FF6B6B #FFFDF5
Inspiration

I was reading **Tove Jansson's "The Summer Book"** on a flight back from Helsinki and there's a passage where the grandmother describes the cottage rooms as overlapping rectangles she can walk between in her head. I drew the shapes on the airplane napkin. This collage is the finished version, three months later, with the angles fixed.

Notes on making

The paper is Canson Mi-Teintes 160 gsm, cut with a scalpel against a steel rule. The dashed line at the bottom is a single piece of gum-strip torn precisely along the perforation.