Awareness Post - Sachiko Abe #10
- finnfamily1229
- Mar 7, 2024
- 1 min read
Sachiko Abe is a Japanese artist known for her performance art of cutting paper into thin strips. When she was young she was admitted into a mental institution because she used harm herself. Around 20 years old she started cutting paper in the institution to calm her mind. Years later, her pieces show her sitting cutting thin strips of paper as people watch her work for hours at a time. She not only does performance art but also drawings, even though her cutting is what she is known for best. Over time she has cut for 10 hours a day for 14 years and used 42, 700 sheets of paper. Each sheet takes her around 40 minutes to cut. The strands she cuts are about 0.5 mm in width or even smaller. Her recent works at the Liverpool Biennial displays the continuous strands of paper from a balcony she sits at, starting a slow trail of paper which looks like snow and fabric. I really like her work from the message behind it and the idea that she does this to calm her mind. Her art is for her and it she wants to share it with the world. I also think it is cool how the paper changes to look like a completely different cobweb like texture. Her art is different which is why she is popular. It also shows another way to meditate and deal with mental health.
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