--- author: Jan Brennenstuhl categories: - Urban Design cover: alt: 'Map Cuts - Paper Art' height: 840 src: https://www.urbanartcore.com/map-cuts-paper-art/map-cut-paper-art1.jpg width: 1880 credit: '' date: '2009-11-17T17:24:43Z' description: The paper artworks by American artist Karen O’Leary are really amazing! By removing the unnecessary, she created fantastic cut-outs of NY, London and Paris... tags: - Paper Art - Print - Street Art London - Street Art Paris - Art Map title: 'Map Cuts - Paper Art' url: https://www.urbanartcore.com/map-cuts-paper-art/ --- # Map Cuts - Paper Art I love artworks, which are influenced by maps or the city itself. For this reason, I already wrote some articles about this part of contemporary art - remind the [Manhattan Skyline Drawing by Stephen Wiltshire](/manhattan-skyline-drawing-stephen-wiltshire/) or the fantastic [typographic lino-cut by Mark Andrew Webber](/linocut-typography-paris/). Today I will present another great example: Whether New York, Paris or London, American artist **Karen O’Leary**’s map cuts are amazing! She hand-cuts parts of original maps into paper and reveals in this way the paths, nodes, circles, boulevards, parks and streets of some of the greatest cities in the world. Karen begun with Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens and the Bronx, afterwards she cut Paris and recently Great Britain’s capital, London. For me, these paper artworks look like spiderwebs and seem to be violative, or better instable. This is a heavy difference to people’s feeling of urbanity, which usually is characterized by strength and stability. I like the map cuts - Thumb up! ![map cut - paper-art]() map cut - paper-art ![map cuts]() map cuts Via [thejailbreak.com](http://thejailbreak.com/2009/10/26/new-york-city-and-paris-map-cuts/).