Every weekday morning, I get an e-mail from The New York Times: “Your Tuesday Briefing”, “Your Wednesday Briefing”, etc. It’s a quick overview of key events in the news and also links to interesting stories on the paper’s web site that one might not necessarily happen upon.
A few days ago, one of those stories was The Modern Life of Origami, an Art as Old as Paper. When I was a child, I had an origami kit stocked with an assortment of papers in various colors and an instruction booklet for folding simple objects, including the classic crane. (That kit, along with my Spirograph and Lite Brite, nurtured my nascent artistic leanings.)
Never in my life have I seen origami sculptures like the ones in the article (all the photographs are by Ryan Jenq and the prop styling was done by Jocelyn Cabral). These are single pieces of paper, uncut, folded with precision and care and are, to me, breathtakingly beautiful. (The bigger the screen on which you view them, the better).
Miniaturists have their say as well. All of the objects below were
One more mind-blowing creation:
Single pieces of paper!
Today is 28 November 2019; to those living in the United States: Happy Thanksgiving!
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Happy Thanksgiving, Jeanne! I feel inspired to try my hand at some turkeygami later today.
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See if you can carve a drumstick into an Eddy or a Stone Tower!
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Thanks for sharing, Jeanne. Very cool! Happy Thanksgiving!
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Thanks for stopping by, Sheila. Happy Turkey to you, Bob and Boomer!
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Truly amazing origami sculptures. A high level of concentration and dexterity…
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…and patience! Thanks for stopping by, Anne.
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Love it!
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I knew you would! 🙂
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Wow
I once folded Jackstar and thought it was about as hard as it could get … not hardly
Happy Thanksgiving from Brooklyn.
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Thanks for stopping by, Steve. Confession: I’m not sure what [a] Jackstar is….?
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Happy Bird Day Jeanne. Interesting art work but I’m pretty sure if I tried origami my adult ADD would…oh look a Cardinal.
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🙂
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Jeanne, these are amazing! I wonder how the artist envisioned the final product of the curved pieces from a single sheet of paper! I will show them to my daughter, who has dabbled in origami and likes to be very precise with her art. I think she’ll be amazed, too.
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Vince, be sure to click on the link to the full article, so Caroline (and you!) can see all of the other creations.
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Those are crazy! I’d like to know what size paper was used for Eddy or for Stone Tower. It doesn’t seem like a person could do that with 8 1/2 by 11″!
Speaking of Thanksgiving, remember Thanksgiving of 1981 at the Mensa? I don’t really remember how the food was (I usually didn’t care for Mensa food and I avoided it), but it was nice of them to do Thanksgiving for us Americans.
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I’m curious about the paper size as well. Will investigate and see if I can come up with an answer!
(And I do, indeed, remember that Mensa Thanksgiving. As I recall, the food was quite good: a traditional turkey dinner with all the trimmings.)
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The creativity is absolutely spectacular. I love the origami tale of 1000 cranes. Happy Thanksgiving!
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Inspiring!
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