Andrew Sutherland
It baffles my mind how Brooklyn-based artist Andrew Sutherland can glue a stack of newspapers together and then cut them to look just like wood. His materials are simple, but his methods are transcendent, creating cascades of color and pattern as if the mundane materials of our throw-away culture actually contain within them the secrets of the universe.
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