What's new in the world of origami: fashion photos with paper, paper wigs and more

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

There is no need to explain to anyone what origami is - almost all of us have been doing it in one way or another. Someone folded airplanes and boats, someone boxes and elephants, and someone went much further, making completely unusual and unique things out of paper - from comic book wallets to provocative outfits.

How many ideas have already been implemented in such a delicate art of paper crafts! Someone took as a basis their favorite Japanese animation characters and created origami in the style of manga and anime. Someone got tired of ordinary paper and began to make money origami. Someone created entire installations of multi-colored paper cranes. What else can you surprise in this area of art?

Photographer Gustavo Rodrigues, for example, uses paper to a minimum. He photographs the model, adding just a little, it would seem. An insignificant stroke - glasses made of colored paper or something else like that. And such a trifle turns his work into something fresh, naive and interesting.

Mariaelisa Duque is a fashion photographer. It would seem, what is the relation to origami? The most immediate - on many of her models, you can see catchy intriguing outfits made of paper. It would seem that there is nothing special in her photo, but such a detail as a huge paper squiggle on her head certainly attracts attention.

But a certain Cathleen Wolter, first of all, apparently, a great children's artist, invented (or invented) a real wig from folded pieces of paper, which in the Renaissance I suppose would have been envious, it painfully resembles a wig of those times.

One of the most unusual authors is a certain Maximilian E. Using an audio tape and excerpts from comics, he made an absolutely stunning handmade wallet, and so stylish that if he were in the store, his purchase would surely have flown into a pretty penny. Making one yourself is no less fun than writing a song yourself.

Well, and finally, no less interesting things are done by the Chilean design firm “The Pick of the crab”. It is not entirely clear what exactly this is made of, as the size, in fact, can be deceiving. But what is made of paper of one density or another, that's for sure. In some way, these cute paper creatures resemble a milk bag from the famous video of the group Blur, which has come a long way from the band's rehearsal point to the house of guitarist Graham Coxon.

Of course, in these works, the light did not converge like a wedge: the world of origami does not stand still. Perhaps something is already being created that tomorrow will plunge us, who are already accustomed to everything, into a shock.