We’re pretty freaked out by what this artist can do with paper 

This video is part of our new series Paper Cuts, in which you get to be hypnotized by artists doing incredible things with paper, scissors, glue sticks and X-Acto knives.
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Watching Cybèle Young make one of her paper-based artworks is almost kind of scary. She can take Japanese paper and make things out of it that seem impossible - like, for instance, the jellyfish you'll see her making here.
To give her pieces strength and flexibility, Young uses a Japanese craft called shifu - basically, making paper into thread. And that kind of strength is balanced by the fragility of the paper she uses to make things like jellyfish tentacles. It's all in service of creating a more expansive world. Young says, "Most of my life, I've been working in miniature. I think that there is a psychological component, in that you can control your world. You can create a sort of Lilliputian world that you can project yourself into and it can be anything you want. And I do want my audience to be able to do that as well."
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