Elise Wehle's intricate paper art – in pictures

P1014378. 'This was a Facebook photo that I took when I was taking a trip out in the desert. Some of my titles are the image number from my camera, or how many megabytes the image was,' says Wehle Photograph: Elise Wehle

Five Month Self Portrait. 'I decided to carry a pad of paper with me for five months, to write down the different thoughts that were going through my head as I worked. I compiled the notes into an online document and then created this portrait out of all of the words' Photograph: Elise Wehle

P1015451. 'Intaglio is a really old printmaking process where you indent the image on a copper plate and then print off of it. From there, I would use the print to create the weave' Photograph: Elise Wehle

P1014412 by Elise Wehle. 'The image is of a person with a Holga camera around her neck. It has been cropped to only include the upper torso, arms and camera of the individual' Photograph: Elise Wehle

Canyon2usgs. 'We get so frustrated with our technology when it's not responsive and it takes longer than two seconds. I wanted to slow down and do something that would take me forever,' says Wehle Photograph: Elise Wehle

110 MB. 'The image is of a sun either rising or setting over a mountain' Photograph: Elise Wehle

123rf 'This is a red sunset over the mountains' Photograph: Elise Wehle

Forestwithsmokehg. 'Putting hours into working with my hands helped to separate myself from technology,' says Wehle Photograph: Elise Wehle

Gnatthebrat. 'My favourite image is this one of the deer – it conveys both the pixelation and the naturalisation really well' Photograph: Elise Wehle

Looking Down 1. 'I made the Looking Down images when I first started the project. I was thinking about how much we look down at our devices and don't make eye contact with the people around us' Photograph: Elise Wehle

Looking Down II 'I wanted to cut into the images and reduce them to smaller parts, in the way that our images get reduced to pixels,' says Wehle Photograph: Elise Wehle

Looking Down III Photograph: Elise Wehle