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Cut paper symmetrical mandala featuring a tardigrade in the center, houseflies, zebra mussels, lilies, and immortal jellyfish. Primarily blue with dark purple, red, and yellow.

Ellen Sandbeck

Cut Paper

Ellen Sandbeck is a papercut artist, environmental writer and storyteller, illustrator, organic landscaper, and vermicomposting specialist who has lived and worked in California and Minnesota. She has a BA in visual art from the University of California at Santa Barbara. She has written and illustrated Green Barbarians: Live Bravely on Your Home Planet (Scribner, 2010); Organic Housekeeping (Scribner, 2006); Eat More Dirt (Broadway/Doubleday, 2003); Slug Bread and Beheaded Thistles (De la Terre Press, 1995, Broadway/Doubleday, 2000); and has done eleven books of original graphics for Dover Publications.