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Tell us about your creative<br />
process. How do you prepare a<br />
piece, or a series. Do you visualize<br />
and plan, or does it manifest<br />
organically as you create?<br />
Sometimes an image unexpectedly<br />
starts to linger in my mind:<br />
an anteater in a zoo, the stomping<br />
feet of a rabbit, a flying trapeze,<br />
a littered plastic bag on the<br />
street, mirroring trees on the water<br />
surface, etc. I create a series to<br />
decode this lingering image so<br />
that I understand what it is trying<br />
to tell me. I believe successful art<br />
is autonomous and I try to let my<br />
intuitions speak as much as possible,<br />
since they often have more<br />
depth than what I can conceptualize.<br />
So even though I do have a<br />
specific vision of what the series<br />
should look like from the start, its<br />
Mayuko Fujino is a self-taught<br />
papercut artist from Tokyo currently<br />
based in Hudson Valley,<br />
New York.<br />
Inspired by Japanese traditional<br />
stencil textile designs,<br />
she has been practicing her<br />
art since 1999 and takes a new<br />
approach to paper cutout technique<br />
by combining it with<br />
used magazine collage and<br />
other materials.<br />
Her work has been exhibited<br />
internationally at locations<br />
such as Old Jaffa Museum (Tel<br />
Aviv, Israel), Fuller Craft Museum<br />
(Brockton, MA), Pelham<br />
Art Center (Pelham, NY, USA),<br />
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of<br />
Denmark (Copenhagen, Denmark),<br />
SOFA Art Fair (New York,<br />
NY, USA), and UAMO Art Festival<br />
(Munich, Germany) and featured<br />
in a book of the world’s<br />
top papercraft illustrators by<br />
noted paper artist Owen Gildersleeve,<br />
Paper Cut: An Exploration<br />
Into the Contemporary<br />
World of Papercraft Art and Illustration.<br />
She has worked on art commissioned<br />
by clients including<br />
New York City’s Department<br />
of Transportation, NYC Parks,<br />
Nokia, Panasonic, Condé Nast,<br />
and the Atlantic Magazine.<br />
She hosts a freeform music<br />
program Play Vertigo at WFMU<br />
Drummer Stream, a community<br />
radio station in Jersey City, NJ.<br />
This issue of Red Door Magazine<br />
features work from two<br />
of her series: “Indweller” and<br />
“Thank You, Have a Nice Day”.<br />
Learn more about Mayuko and<br />
see more of her work at:<br />
www.mayukofujino.com<br />
ISSUE #<strong>24</strong> - VISUALIZE - FALL 2020 23
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