papercut 696 asymmetric flower horizontal - LaserSister - KayVincent

Lockdown Papercutting Project Day 37: Asymmetric Flower

Asymmetric Flower #696

I’m continuing the ongoing papercutting project that I’ve been doing. (Trying to work my way through all of the designs in the “922 Decorative Vector Ornaments” book by Dover Books.) “Asymmetric Flower” is number 696 in the book.

Having noted that yesterday’s design was unusual because it contained four consonants in a row, this one does as well! It definitely wasn’t deliberate, either. I could have called it “Wonky Flower”, but that would suggest that it was asymmetrical by accident, when actually it’s part of the design.

papercut 696 asymmetric flower vertical - LaserSister - KayVincent

Closer up:

papercut 696 asymmetric flower square - LaserSister - KayVincent

Initially it looks like I’ve accidentally cut off the outer petal things and have then tried to just style it out. But if you look at the two inner petal things, the left one is small and the right one is large (etc). So trust me – this is how the design was meant to look!

It’s so asymmetrical that it makes me uncomfortable to look at for too long, for some reason. I feel a fairly strong compulsion to create a mirror image version of it. That way I can (1) regain the feeling of balance, and (2) prove that it’s not me making mistakes in the cutting – it really is designed like that.

In terms of cutting it was actually a fairly quick one, and felt like a satisfying mixture of curvy lines with fiddly inner shapes. So I could actually see myself using this design again, and not just for the OCD-type ‘closure’ compulsion that I would gain from it 🙂


Today I’m still listening to the Writing Excuses podcast. Love it.

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