These Spinning Worlds Were Created Using Only Paper And Imagination

There’s no end to what you can do with paper, scissors, and your imagination. You can create garments, moving sculptures, or, like Istanbul-based artist Nermin Er, you can create entire worlds.

Using layers of paper and a light source, Er creates unique worlds that are at once mysterious and charming. Some of the circular pieces even rotate, creating a moving, living world around her characters. The light behind the paper allows the images to emerge from the darkness, as though you’ve come from a thick forest into a bright clearing.

(via My Modern Met)

Even her pieces without the back lighting source have the same charming mystery about them.

You can see more of Er’s work on the Galeri Nev website, where her work is being displayed.