It was such a joy to put together this Artist Spotlight post. Why? Because the miniature paper cuttings that KK Bicalho , a fine artist and art educator in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, creates are just that... joyful. For inspiration, she needs to look no further than the details of daily life. As KK says, "There is a lot of hidden beauty out there, here and there. It is necessary to see in another way what is always there. Forgetting for a while the way adults' eyes look at everything and remembering what our childhood eyes used to do." The j oie de vivre in KK's often whimsical Minuances (i.e. mini nuances) is due to her flair for capturing those little moments in time that we might otherwise take for granted. "By recording in paper silhouettes the situations that are around us, I give rise to a new way of appreciating life, with lightness and simplicity." "I love miniatures! But my art goes beyond the paper that I cut. I dialogue with the s