Lu Shengzhong

The Chinese artist that specializes in the ancient art of paper-cutting choses to stay close the routes of the art of the traditional folk art. His work consists of  thousands of red hand cut paper dolls cut from red tissue paper and displayed is various different ways and various scales. The colour red is a good luck symbol in china and the tissue paper is normally used in celebrations such as weddings and new year and so the materials of his work bring something to the piece as well. The process is more than just art for Lu Shengzhong; the cutting out of little red figures is a spiritual and a performance which has been practiced for generations as an act to bring fertility to the families and as a symbol of ancestral continuity. This spiritual ritual gives Shengzhong meaning to his work and a powerful, cultural sense.  

By cutting the out all of the dolls by hand, Shengzhong is able to make each one slightly different, unique and helps his to represent the human population. He uses his work to reflect on how delicate human beings are and show that a human's life can be shorter than the paper's thickness.