Inspirational Image Friday: Hunter Stabler

Published May 29th, 2009 at 5:15 am in Anatomy, Illustration, Imagery with no comments
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Below are selected works – the more anatomically and biologically related ones of course – by Hunter Stabler. He creates detailed paper cutouts, occasionally dipping into other mediums. But this puts it mildly — as one exhibition described his work:

“His work … is intricate, mostly abstract paper cutouts of varying size, along with one painting. The cutouts’ detail is astounding. Stabler hand-draws them with a compass and cuts them out with an Exacto knife. Each piece takes between two and six months to produce.”

The content is sometimes abstract, sometimes recognizable, and often both. There’s a pervasive use of symbols, often religious in nature. An interesting element is that even though his compositions look highly radial/symmetrical, on close inspection in some (see details below), the symmetry doesn’t quite hold up. It’s interesting because it still works for Stabler, charging the cutouts with a subtle sense movement and the organic, and this observation certainly doesn’t take away from the relentless detail in the forms themselves.

Now I’ll let the images speak for themselves: