Capsulated Cranes!

Cranes, cranes and plenty of them! Look! Oh, and there are plenty more to come...

These colourful cranes have been patiently made by Sophie, as I can recall she said she made at least 800 (or more) of these beauties (a meaning of good luck)! Origami is not really my best of areas (Beverly) but I'm willing to attempt the templates that Sophie provided in a previous post, and also to test my patience!

Relating to our topic on heirlooms and trinketry... origami could be said to be a 'heirloom' as it is a tradition of paper-folding, where the knowledge and skill has been passed through generations. An heirloom is something that has been passed through generations to reflect on our histories or treasuring something sentimental within a family.

There's even teeny tiny origami swallows, parrots and cranes!

This is all exciting! We are planning to fill this vending machine with origami creatures which will then be installed in a particular area around Leeds College of Art. Hopefully the library if we can get permission.

It's 20p per capsule, so grab your origami bird which has been made with LOVE!

Paper chasing

Papierkrieg from Makaio Tisu on Vimeo.

Lovely to see the art of paper crafting and folding used in different formats. The patience and skill taken creating the animations really pays off. I do like the idea of creating a narrative around the paper crafting but the simplicity of colour in Jen Stark's work is really beautiful, the sculptural elements of her work are anything but simple but just as beautiful, take a look...

"Streaming Gradient" by Jen Stark from Jen Stark on Vimeo.

Fashion and furniture designers have so often taken from the Japanese art of paper folding.

Shrouding the body with sculptural fabric or wood.

catwalk from autumn-winter collection ‘07 of DIOR | sputnik table by Buro Vormkrijgers

Hidden in my (Sophie) draw at home I have about 400 paper cranes that I lovingly folded as part of a project (that funnily enough I never finished) to create 1000 paper cranes for good luck so as of now

OPERATION BIG BIRD

is a go! I shall try and finish folding all those cursed little squares into lovely little birdies as a product to sell in our vending machine.

BIG BIRD HAS FLOWN THE NEST! I REPEAT BIG BIRD HAS FLOWN THE NEXT! OVER!