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Body tissues: slices of life in paper

By Caroline Morley

19 April 2012

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(Image: Lisa Nilsson)

Deli-sliced human bodies have never been so beautiful. In her Tissue Series, uses finely rolled paper in a technique called quilling to create anatomically correct artworks. “I find quilling exquisitely satisfying for rendering the densely squished and lovely internal landscape of the human body in cross section,” she says. Caroline Morley

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