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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The Sudd by Ellen Sandbeck
  • Ellen Sandbeck
  • The Sudd, 2024
  • multi-layered papercut
  • 27 x 39 x 0.25 in
  • Signature: Signed with artist's initials cut into the lower right corner
  • Inv: NT2
 
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Eleven layers of colored paper, cut with scissors so the underlying layers show though. Depicting species that are endemic to the Sudd, including: Mongalla Gazelle; Wandering Glider (dragonfly); Nile Crocodile; Shoebill stork; Ferruginous duck;
Water Lettuce; Water hycinth; Northern African Rock Python; Nubian flapshell turtle; Redbelly tilapia; Nothobranchus nubaensis (killifish); Potamonautes niloticus (freshwater crab); Senegal bichir (Dragonfish)

  • Subject Matter: The vast wetland in South Sudan

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