Ellen Sandbeck

Ellen Sandbeck

Duluth, Minnesota

Papercut artist, environmental writer/illustrator, organic landscaper, and vermicomposting specialist, who has lived and worked in California and Minnesota.

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Mandala for the End of Time Image: scissors-cut, multi-layered, muticolored paper
scissors-cut, multi-layered, muticolored paper
  • Ellen Sandbeck
  • Mandala for the End of Time, 2022
  • multi-layered papercut
  • 27 x 27 x 0.01 in
  • Signature: Signed with artist's initials cut into the paper
  • Inv: MA1
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Eight layers of scissors-cut paper form a mandala desig,n featuring species that might be able to survive a global environmental catastrophe. Starting in the center, and working out, the species are: Tardigrade sp. (Water bear); Musca domestica (Housefly);
Dreissena polymorpha (Zebra mussel); Rattus norvegicus (Norway rat); Eichornia crassipes (Water hyacinth); Turritopsis dohrnii (Immortal jellyfish)

  • Subject Matter: nature
  • Current Location: Duluth, Minnesota

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