初雪夜的纸雕山村

A layered paper-cut diorama of a small mountain village on the night of the first snow, built inside a shallow wooden box and lit from behind. Sheets of white and pale blue watercolour paper are cut by hand into rolling hills, pine forests and a cluster of pitched-roof houses, each layer standing a finger's width in front of the next so the depth reads clearly. A few house windows are cut out and backed with amber tissue paper so they glow warm, and tiny punched paper snowflakes hang on fine thread in front of the scene. Soft blue backlight, crisp shadows between the layers, visible deckled paper edges and faint pencil guide marks, photographed straight on with a shallow depth of field. Palette of white, cool blue and warm amber. Quiet and still, with nothing else in the frame.