ABOUT REUT
I studied film and specialized in animation, where I became fascinated by the way an image comes together through separate layers - background, movement, character and detail.
Years later, when I began working with Japanese patterned papers, I realized I was building images in much the same way. Only now, instead of building a world frame by frame, I was building it piece by piece.
I was about ten years old when a friend returned from living abroad and gave me a small collection of Japanese origami papers.
I remember being completely fascinated by them. The colors, patterns and extraordinary detail made them feel almost too beautiful to use.
So I didn't. I kept them.
Years later, when I began experimenting with collage, I returned to those same papers. What began as a childhood fascination gradually became the material through which I found my own visual language.
Chiyogami is not a neutral material. Each sheet carries a visual language shaped by a long Japanese tradition of pattern and craft.
I do not begin by deciding what the world will be. It emerges through the resonance between the movement already held in the paper and something I recognize within myself.
As fragments come together, their original patterns enter new relationships. The work becomes alive when they begin to move as one.
I want the work to keep unfolding through looking, leaving something more to discover each time you return.