Though the unknowns of life in a pandemic have left many feeling anxious and overwhelmed, Baltimore-based artist Rosa Leff embraced her time in quarantine as an opportunity to slow down, refocus, and commit full time to her art-making process. The change of pace may not have been voluntary at first, but it provided a welcome space for the well traveled artist to reflect.

Unraveling the common threads that connect her most recent papercuts, whether based on photographs of her own backyard or taken during past adventures abroad, we see that for the artist, a place and our experience of it is only the sum of its most overlooked parts. Celebrating the mundane, Rosa memorializes the messier details of urban life- tangled nests of telephone wires and power lines, blocks of storefronts crowded with competing signage, and broadsides of rusted delivery trucks emblazoned with local graffiti tags. For Rosa Leff, a memory is all in the details.

ROsa’s LEff’s first solo exhibition of original papercuts with Soapbox Arts, ‘papercut polaroids’ is on view through august 29, 2020!