158,760 Pinpricks
born 1976
Fu Xiaotong 付小桐
Chinese
On a horizontally oriented sheet of white paper with rough edges and a textured surface, geological forms appear in low relief. Fashioned from thousands of tiny holes rather than ink or color, the hills or cliff fill the page, bordered at the top by a sliver of blank sky and at the bottom by a narrow strip of beach and water.
Handmade Xuan paper