2018年10月，日本艺术家小岛奈保子的最新手工纸雕作品“Shiro”在泰国曼谷艺术文化中心正式揭幕。这是她首次在泰国开个展，展品是以身长32米的蓝鲸为原型，按照一比一的真实比例创作的，是迄今为止她作品里规模最大的一个。

In October 2018 Nahoko Kojima unveiled her latest handmade Paper Cut Sculpture, ‘Shiro’ at the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre in Thailand. This is the artist’s largest piece to date, a life-sized depiction of a 32m Blue Whale and her debut solo show in Thailand. With thousands of daily visitors, the show was hugely popular with Bangkok art lovers.

▼身长32米的“蓝鲸”纸雕，Blue Whale, a  32m handmade Paper Cut Sculpture

从Shiro的概念设计到雕刻完成，小岛奈保子花了将近一年。她在夏威夷的时候看到的蓝鲸，在数月的绘画，以及对蓝鲸的习性与生活环境的研究后，她开始创作她最大的作品。小岛奈保子始终认为，只有按照蓝鲸真实比例来创作，人们才能感受到地球最大的哺乳动物的雄伟。

Shiro took almost a year to create from concept to completion. Kojima saw the animal in Hawaii and after months of drawing and research into the behaviour and environment of the animal she started to draw her largest piece to date. The artist was adamant she wanted to work to actual life scale so that people could experience the true majesty of the largest mammal on the planet.

▼纸雕细部，detailed view