Alia Bright’s Paper Art Plays with Perspective, Shadow, and Light

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Alia Bright love for shape, typography, and color shines through her artwork. Based in Portland, the graphic designer and paper artist makes colorful creations that play with perspective, shadow, and light.

Known as paper quilling, each of her pieces is made from paper and glue, with different weights and stocks often used in combination. Every strip of paper is first cut to fit, shaped individually by hand, and assembled into intricate shapes and forms.

“I try to maintain the right level of stylistic simplicity while still creating visual interest through color, pattern, and shadows,” she told Colossal.

Check out some of her work below.

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Yes yes y'all we're back with another installment of #AliaInPortlandGettingCoffee, and boy is that a catchy, concise hashtag (#catchyconcisehashtag) Anyway, I'm looking at you, @goodcoffeepdx. • Good has always been in my regular rotation. I used to hit up the inner SE location for quick to-go Americanos on the way to the studio way back when. HOWEVS, these days of little sleep require more of a treat-yo-self vibe, so for the past couple months I've been taking a seat at the big 'un in Slabtown, like, most of the days of my life. I like to go and sketch, people watch, or fix my glassy stare on nothing in particular while I shove pastries in my pie hole and wait to receive life from the coffee in front of me. • The staff is very kind and they tell me I look great when I know I look like a trash bag. Shout out to Andrew for not judging me on those two-scones-and-a-cookie kind of mornings ????? • ?☕️?☕️?☕️?☕️☺️☕️? • (This is not a sponsored post)

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Remember back when you’d drop $17 on an album just because there was ONE song on there that you wanted to be able to hear on-demand? (RIP Tower Records) You’d consider yourself lucky if there were even 2 other songs on it that you ended up liking, and every once in a while you’d get that ?? album that you could listen to front to back, no skipping tracks, just one whole piece of art. Blazing Arrow, by Blackalicious, is one of those for me. One of my all time favorite albums in any genre. This summer while creating new pieces, I began almost every morning with at least one listen through. I catch such a vibe with this album—it sets the stage to slip into the zone (which is a real thing, not just a casual way to say you’re focused.) “The zone” is an actual psychological phenomenon where you become so immersed in what you’re doing that time and even the urge to address your immediate need-states disappear. Pain, hunger, and fatigue don’t register while you exist in that state of energized fluidity—it’s incredible and gets me feeling like a real life blazing arrow. You ever been there? ?? ————– “The greatest high be that natural high within
No need to force in the progression just ride the wind” @officialblackalicious Paper: @gfsmithpapers / @colorplan_papers

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