I’ve had a pen pal since summer of 2010, however last December I stopped responding due to the accumulation of tasks and busy work that consumed this past year of my life. I resorted to communicating with her in ways that seemed more expedient; however with that we lost an element that was characteristic of our friendship.

Being here brings me back to a state of compulsive list making and constantly attempting, and often failing to complete assignments. Rather than complete this project for a letter grade, I’ve decided to use it as a means to accomplish a personal task. The content of the envelope serves as an excuse for my delayed response, however the assignment being an incentive to respond ten months later demonstrates the still present importance of academic requirements over personal ones.

Materials:

http://www.thecoolist.com/papercraft-perfection-10-amazing-master-origami-artists/

I first came across this website and learned about a variety of artists who use paper as their primary medium, along with origami artists, I read about the multitude of techniques within origami.

I found Ingrid Siliakus and Richard Sweeny’s work to be most intriguing.

Ingrid Siliakus makes sculptural forms out of paper. This is a unique form of origami because in a sense it represents a contradiction, as well as a way to take architecture out of its normal context. Architectural structures are typically thought to be concrete, yet these structures are simply made from paper therefore it brings on the question of whether  Ingrid’s sculptures  are simple mecets of structures, or architectural structures themselves.

Richard Sweeny creates sculptural geometric forms possessed an elegance that one typically does not allocate to paper.

I then decided to look up how to go about making these two types of origami styles, and found these tutorials to be the most helpful:

http://www.youtube.com/embed/dnU6TgFfP
(this type of origami is considered “Kirigami”)

http://www.youtube.com/embed/HDqCG2bUFIQ