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Back to those splayed works in progress like this one: .

The question has been how to secure the pieces precisely without the edges of the paper underneath the uppermost pasted cutout becoming embossed. (I think I stated that right.) I also didn’t want to lose the energy, the assertiveness of the unpasted pieces. After days of just looking at them and picturing them in my mind’s eye with no accompanying vocabulary, the answer arrived the other day. Sometimes simple solutions take a long time to debut.

I made a test model. After splaying about six quickly chosen small cutout scraps, I located tracing paper, traced, cut, and there it was.

I like the little test model.