The Origami Forum

Hi folks. A few clarifications. When I prepare foil-backed paper, my preferred foil is 100-microns thick aluminum. In Israel this is easy to come by, as it is the material the ultra-orthodox here use to cover their kitchens with during Passover (to minimize contact with ‘everyday’ surfaces). I have ...

Some thoughts on Cleavage


for mleonard


http://www.saadya.net/female/Clvg.jpg


These can also be, um, wet folded.

An inventor friend of mine, Bob Wulkowicz, designed something that's at least half a possible solution to your problem. When working for the Chicago Park District he wanted a cheap way to build plastic walls around trees so he could fill them with water that would seep in thru the bottom & prevent t...

Eric, I make foil paper from kraft + spray glue + foil of a grade thicker than you can get from the supermarkets (except for experiments, then thin is OK). Divisions are either eyeballed or measured & marked on the foil side with a good marker. The curves themselves, I simply 'draw': with a plastic ...

Been quiet a while, but not completely inactive. With me its always two steps back for each one forward… Meaning, I’ve been sprucing up models designed or begun maybe fifteen years ago. Eg: http://www.saadya.net/CHAOS/updated.jpg Also been exploring curving textures (mostly my own ideas, with so...

These are great--I like them even better than the first one. It's been important to me to try to do something which---as I am not ashamed (merely chagrined) to admit---Joel has succeeded at more than me: to show in a single work a transition, and at the same time a contrast, between what might be ca...

The image is quite striking and indeed all of Joel Cooper’s tessellation work that I’ve seen so far is stunningly beautiful. As to ‘solving the problem’— that will depend on what you’ve defined for yourself as the problem. Look closely at what is done here. When you tessellate a sheet an...

I finally got around to finishing that face I started the other night:



And so maybe I’ve earned the right to a few words on the subject of this thread.

http://www.saadya.net/female/faces.htm

Hmmm…. maybe this belongs in the thread on foil vs. wetfolding, but: back in the days when I was playing with foil (straight kitchen foil) I did something similar to the only victim who was willing:

http://www.saadya.net/Aluminum/twins.jpg

I deliberately held off mentioning HUMANS in that list, both because there’s another thread running on this and because technically and artistically in origami we’re not quite there yet. Still, I’ve had a sentiment very similar to the one about animals with regard to humans too. Namely: that t...

Ever notice this? If you make BIRDS from origami, you can very quickly convince yourself that folded paper is the perfect medium for capturing a bird’s essential nature---that origami and birds were somehow MADE for each other. But then you do frogs, and think the same; and hippopotomi, and think ...

loose lips sink ships
Been working, within my context, on lips alone:

(I'm new at this:)

mleonard wrote: >Is it just me, or do the two pieces above border on the pornographic? Not that I think that is a bad thing, you understand. Now now, Ernestine is quite prim and proper. At MOST----I may have ‘lifted’ eyelids & eyebrows from some distant memory of a Chinese print of a woman in e...

mleonard re: Sculpture Nicely done. What I specially like is its asymmetry---symmetry being something origami has a hard time getting away from. Taken to its limit – which for some reason we in origami often are reluctant to do – this sort of work would not be ‘mock cubism’ but ACTUAL cubism...