HOLLOW CUTTING is an old technique for making silhouettes popular in nineteenth-century America. My aim in this series is to take this old idea and use it to explore the relationship between cutting and drawing the human figure.
Each piece begins with a freehand cutting of the model (or part of the model) effectively removing them from the sheet of paper. I then draw in pencil details of hair, drapery and background objects. The drawings are finally backed with glass and framed in such a way that the background colour of the wall shows through the cut-away figure.
Most of these pieces are no longer available.
