Craft
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March 19, 2021
Grace Ebert
A moth-human hybrid, striped coral, and a smoking frog sporting a tracksuit inhabit Cat Johnston’s fantastical ecosystem crafted from paper and textiles. The playfully weird creatures are impressed by monsters, mythology, and folklore, evoking deities and magnifying the unusual qualities of crops and animals. Johnston created lots of the lifeforms proven right here shortly after shifting to San Francisco and exploring the atmosphere. “I used to be blown away by all of the unusual and wonderful cacti and succulents and the animals I noticed there (hummingbirds and pelicans and raccoons!) and needed to create a panorama of crops and creatures that felt as alien and magical as California did to me,” she says.
At present residing and dealing in Portland, the illustrator and mannequin maker first labored with paper for a stop-motion animation she did with Andersen M and Tundra studios and has been creating with the fabric since. She’s within the technique of crafting two extra characters, which she’ll be sharing quickly on Instagram. You additionally may take pleasure in Roberto Benavidez’s piñatas and the felt storybook creatures by Cat Rabbit.
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#paper
#crops
#textiles
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