Cut­ting paper, artist Simone Lourenco cre­ates intri­cate sys­tems and designs from a sheet of paper, lay­er­ing and devel­op­ing what looks like liv­ing organisms.

I’m fond of the type of cuts I see in her work. She snips lit­tle pieces of the paper that are del­i­cate fringe, and also makes gap­ing cuts that reveal col­ors and shapes beneath them. Her con­struc­tion of them is also inter­est­ing — things are folded together, tucked inside one another, tied together — all with the use of paper.

All images via her web­site.