OrIgAmI

             Recall our Younger Days of folding papers into various shapes and sizes as a favourite past-time? Well….if you don’t, this art is called ORIGAMI!

            “ORI” means to fold & “KAMI” means paper, when put together, it is the wonder of it transforming from a flat sheet of material into a finished sculpture through paper folding without Cutting or Gluing! If cutting and gluing is needed, it is usually considered as “Kirigami”. 

            It is of Japanese origin but its not mere plain folding, rather, can be said as a unique sculptural art, containing both composition and performance as expressions of the art. The best known model we all know would most probably be the Japanese Paper Crane.

           Being lighter than normal paper enables it to suit a wider range of models but “Washi” is the traditional origami paper used in Japan,  made from wood pulp & is tougher than normal paper but the easily available ones are coloured on one side and white on the other ranging from  2.5 cm – 25 cm.

            An interesting story I happen to stumble upon is about Won Park, the “Master of Origami”, also dubbed as the "money folder"! He not only folds & does Origami with Money but his “house” is Great too as he lives in a converted garbage truck!

    

 

 I shall let a part of his Work take its spot & speak for themselves…… :)

 

One Dollar Butterfly

One Dollar Fish

One Dollar Camera

     

            Two Dollars Battle Tank

Two Dollars Chinese Dragon  

 One Dollar Crab

                   

             Two Dollars Jacket      

  Two Dollars Spider

  One Dollar Scorpion  

One Dollar Toilet Bowl

             One Dollar Penguin     

One Dollar Shark