MandrakePix Cut Paper Collages by Mandi are framed in white 5 1/4" x 7" frames.
Currently based in the West Village, Mandi took solace during the long hours of enforced lockdown in doing something she had enjoyed so much in her childhood, making cut paper collages, now using the abundance of materials at hand, magazines and accumulated Art Gallery catalogs and fine print calendars.
A book she was reading at the time, captured her imagination: a travelogue of a solo trek across Mongolia, on horseback, with thrilling narrative of the wide open lands and traditions of the nomadic lifestyle - and those ubiquitous falcons! Suddenly these 'imaginary' birds came, "as fast as I could cut and paste.” I call them my ‘Visitors from Xanadu' she explained, referencing a poem she'd been required to learn verbatim at school.
Each collage is unique. Design and image copyright:©mandrake/mn2022
