Myriam Dion and the fragile beauty of newsprint – in pictures
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Myriam Dion is the first to admit that she makes her choice of newspaper each day based on the pictures. For this French-Canadian student is also a papercut artist, whose carefully cut-out newspaper pages have won numerous awards. Dion works freehand using a scalpel to produce these beautiful designs reminiscent of both Arabic latticework and stained-glass windows. She suggests that the transformation from broadsheet to objet d'art is "to find a new use for print media in the process of its disappearance", and the delicate quality of her work may well be a subtle mirroring of the fragile state of print journalism.
