Zooming made magical with paper cutting guidelines to make your zoom experience all the more poetic

Everything we do matters.
We are all connected to each other.
Everything we do to nature, we do to ourselves.
Everything we do to ourselves, we do to our world.
So let's start with ourselves.
Be the change you, your children, your children's children want to see in our world.
A Two by Two Creators Production.

A curtain of silk panels stitched with paper butterflies individually cut from the ephemera of life (used tickets, maps, music, books, scribbles, sketches).
One by one, each panel was gently dipped into a tray of midnight black ink allowing the colour to gradually seep through the fabric, flowing up through the butterflies' wings.
Words were handwritten on the silk, the nib catching on fabric threads as each letter escaped… ‘darkness rising ‘fly’, ’nyctophilia’ ‘dark depths’ ‘lightness’ ‘up, up and away’.

We were asked to give people at the Hearken summit the opportunity to recognise the importance of beauty. This may seem incongruous within a business conference, but having the freedom to explore notions or specific words that resonate from discussions and talks, allows your mind to relax, reflect and acknowledge their power. Thus a word or phrase connected more deeply and in turn it's visual expression allows it to take flight, giving everyone a chance to see its strength and beauty. By playing with lettering, we begin to understand the possibilities for expression in the words themselves and how to weave them into other forms of expression. Typography is a powerful tool and we can celebrate the individuality and beauty of a word’s structure: bold/aggressive/sharp/cutting/swooshy/exploring/deliberate/rushed/
legible/illegible/ magic/visible/engaged....
Examine the structure of lettering and imagery: how does the process of cutting out a word affect how you consider it? Essentially allowing ourselves to be more playful and curious, and giving ourselves the time and permission to reflect and connect with words and art in a different way
As a constellation of creatives our aim is to leave behind a collaborative piece where everyone involved has contributed, in addition to individual keepsakes for all attending. Collaboration can bring out the best in each person, creating masterpieces that are so much more than the sum of their art. Together we are always stronger…

Two by Two helping more than 90 participants in making golden angels at Louisiana Museum of Modern art.
Every participant created a folded book angel, an advent candle holder display and finished off writing their wishes of cut out paper feathers.
The beautiful boathouse at the museum was full of golden moments of guilted calligraphy, angel making, light and cut outs to bring home.

Readings from 'Out of Africa' and other works by Karen Blixen, with the theme of wings.
Two by Two animated the readings with calligraphy, visuals and sound, followed by workshops where guests wrote and drew in their own notebooks with coffee as ink.