ORIGAMI

The British Origami Society, London Mini-meeting
Saturday 14th January, 2006 2:00pm to 5:00pm
Queen Elizabeth Hall, Foyer
This was an opportunity to exchange techniques and ‘folds’ for new models with people visiting from Holland, Switzerland and Germany.
Several different new foldings were demonstrated and taught. We all gathered in a group around some tables and various people took turns demonstrating their folded models. We folded a butterfly, a frog, a ‘wooden shoe’ [from Holland] and a quite elaborate top which was made from three pieces of paper.
Each section was folded separately and then the three sections were combined.
With all these models, the trick is to remember the process and then to practice it afterwards. If it is possible the steps can be diagrammed. Sometimes they have already been recorded, but this is not always the case.
During the process of unfolding to aid the diagrammatic record, it becomes easier to remember the steps.
This kind of folding and diagramming relates back to the processes that are involved in establishing my knit work and subsequent construction processes and techniques.
Folding of paper, mimics the folding of the knitted substrate. The notion of layering and compositing also has reflections in my project. The images that I edit in the presentation are layered and nested in the time line.