Folded from 95cm x 95cm Wenzhou rice paper without any cutting or tearing.
Height 26cm, Width 25cm and Depth 6cm.
There are several thousands of folds in the piece, and it took several months to complete folding. If all of them would be unfolded, the paper would become square again.
This is my first time folding super complex origami with some other colour than white, it took me 1.5 years to invent a method to be able to make coloured paper that is thin and strong enough for this kind of work. As far as I know there are no existing papers with the very specific qualities, so I had to develop it myself. The Wenzhou papers come only in white. All the details, flags, spear, and horns are folded from the same uncut square sheet of paper, so it was a great challenge to be able to them so thin. There are more than 50 layers of paper inside the spear hand!
It also stands on its own, even though I didn’t try to balance it! There is roughly equal amount of paper in the spear and arms than in the flags, so they balance each other out. It looks wild when flags look like they take a lot more paper, but they just have less folds to make them smaller.
jkonkkola_art on May 28th, 2024 at 08:48 UTC »
Folded from 95cm x 95cm Wenzhou rice paper without any cutting or tearing.
Height 26cm, Width 25cm and Depth 6cm.
There are several thousands of folds in the piece, and it took several months to complete folding. If all of them would be unfolded, the paper would become square again.
This is my first time folding super complex origami with some other colour than white, it took me 1.5 years to invent a method to be able to make coloured paper that is thin and strong enough for this kind of work. As far as I know there are no existing papers with the very specific qualities, so I had to develop it myself. The Wenzhou papers come only in white. All the details, flags, spear, and horns are folded from the same uncut square sheet of paper, so it was a great challenge to be able to them so thin. There are more than 50 layers of paper inside the spear hand!
It also stands on its own, even though I didn’t try to balance it! There is roughly equal amount of paper in the spear and arms than in the flags, so they balance each other out. It looks wild when flags look like they take a lot more paper, but they just have less folds to make them smaller.
steve_adr on May 28th, 2024 at 09:24 UTC »
Unreal..
I'm unable to believe frankly..
👍🏻👍🏻
pedro_pascal_123 on May 28th, 2024 at 10:04 UTC »
What about crying? I swear, if I tried to do this, lots of crying would be involved...