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Six days after Marvel Comics mastermind Stan Lee departed for the great unknown, in November 2018, multidisciplinary designer John Ed De Vera created the legend’s portrait, made up of tiny pieces of paper glued together one on top of the other, in an incredibly vivid 3D collage. This was the artist’s tribute to the iconic superhero creator, a way to say ‘thank you’ and immortalize him through the thing he loves doing best, sculpting with paper. Literally at the cutting edge of art, meticulously giving life to shapes and forms through paper layering, the Philippines-based, multidisciplinary designer creates pop up illustrations by stacking several different layers of paper in order to sculpt a third dimension. In this way, the images he creates not only stand out, they also reach out to viewers with a most congenial narrative. Playing with depth and shadow, his intricate designs are created with basic tools, like paper and scissors. Gal Gadot’s Wonder Woman, President Donald Trump, Lady Gaga, characters from The Game of Thrones, as well as The Black Panther have all undergone this creative’s knife, in his quest to find new ways to push and innovate through his craft. 
John Ed de Vera, 'Create your Future'. 25.5″ X 11″ paper cut illustration. 
As a boy, he would play with technical pens and cutters, and join random street contests for creating posters on the spot.John was one of those kids who would fold bank notes to create little figurines or fill his notebooks with countless letterings and doodles. In college, where he majored in Advertising Arts, computers weren’t brought into play, so he would design his own letters for the projects that were assigned to the class. His love for analog crafting remains to this day, even though he manages to blend in a little digital magic, allowing for the two worlds to develop through each other under his wand, or should we say scalpel. The analogy to a surgeon is not random at all, as what this artist does requires patience, accuracy and precision. 
John Ed De Vera, 'The Shape of Water' from the #Madethepapers ongoing portrait series for an online publication. © John Ed De Vera. 
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