Artist Makes Cut-Outs and Combines Them With Famous Landmarks

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Ron K
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Rich McCor, better known as papeboyo on Instagram, is a London-based artist who makes paper cut-outs and combines them with famous landmarks all around the world. According to the artist, he seeks inspiration from everything that surrounds him. A staircase is used as Freddie Mercury’s legs, the Statue of Liberty becomes a weight lifter, while a cup of coffee plays a role in a dragon fight.

McCor shares his work on his Instagram profile where he has gained a following of 425k people. The artist has also produced a book of his images titled Around the World in Cut-Outs, where you can find some of his best artworks.

Scroll down and check out his masterpieces below.

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I’ve teamed up with @surface_uk again to make some noise (in this case jangly banjo noise) about the release of the new Matte Black Surface Pro 6. I'd like to pretend it's a bespoke design inspired by my cut-outs, but the reality is it’s available in matte black to everyone. Anyway it seemed vaguely appropriate to head somewhere with black in the name to use the device, so here's a shot from Blackpool Beach. I was there over the weekend and managed to catch some pretty amazing sunrises #anythingbutordinary I’m going to be adding my own touch to some of your photos with the Matte Black Surface Pro 6 today. Check out my latest insta story if you want me to “paperboyo” one of your photos.

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Back in 1998 France loaned Japan their Statue of Liberty (from it's home in Paris) to celebrate Franco-Japanese ties. The Statue went back home in 1999 but it was so popular that a replica was made so now she's here permanently in Tokyo. There's also a Statue of Liberty in Las Vegas which, in 2010, the US Postal Service mistook for the real one in New York and printed on it's stamps. However it's not an exact replica so the artist behind the sculpture, believing his statue's features to be different enough, sued the US Postal Service for illegally using his design. A federal court agreed with him and ordered the post office pay him $3.5m in compensation! So to make sure I don't get in any copyright trouble I've embellished this one here in Tokyo with my own design 🗽#TokyoTokyo @TokyoTokyoOldMeetsNew #StatueOfLiberty #Odaiba #ad

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