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The Silhouette Art of Kaye Housel
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THE ARTS
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1 / 1987 |
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Rose Marasco
Rose Marasco is a free-lance writer-photographer and is an
assistant professor of art at the University of Southern
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They have been called many names - black profiles, shades, scissargraphs, sissartypes, papyrolomias, and finally, as we have come to know them, silhouettes.
An enduring craft that came into popularity in the second half of the eighteenth century, it is currently practiced with precision and skill by Kaye Housel. The seventy-three-year-old Housel has been cutting silhouettes at her home and studio in Rangeley, Maine, for twenty-one years. The Housels, Kaye and her husband Dale, who complements her finished products with his matting and framing talents, were in the process of packing up their Rangeley home when I met with them. They were moving to what had previously been their winter residence in Elberta, Alabama, on the Gulf Coast.
Though their residence was changing, and boxes were packed and lined up against the pine-paneled walls, Kaye's continuing involvement with her craft of forty years was certainly not being left behind. She seemed as excited about making silhouettes and talking about them as one who had recently begun a new interest.
"I began forty years ago this past Halloween. I started it for a Halloween carnival at my children's school. I had never cut silhouettes before. When I started to think about black and orange for Halloween, silhouettes popped into my head, and I thought maybe I could cut silhouettes. On Halloween night, with another mother accompanying me to paste them, I began. It turned out to be a very popular part of the carnival."
Hobby becomes
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