Modern origami by Brian Chan

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

Origami has long ceased to be the art of creating flowers and animals from paper. New developments have shown that origami may well reflect not only, let's say, “eternal” things, but also quite modern ones. With this, that is, the creation modern origami, and is engaged in by an American engineer and artist of Chinese descent Brian Chan.

Each true origami master has his own style and method of creating paper crafts. Brian Chen also has his own unique technology. Moreover, like a real engineer, he created it on the basis of mathematical knowledge. After all, it is quite possible to measure harmony with algebra, as we know.

As a result, Brian Chen got an algorithm that allows you to create almost any shape out of paper or fabric (origami, by the way, also fabric). But Chen himself prefers to work on the creation of figures in the form of all kinds of insects and figures from cartoons (both Western and Japanese).

However, we have already seen origami in the form of manga and anime characters. But the charming WALL-E robot rolled out of paper is really something new and amazing! This is the kind of origami that an engineer should create!

Looking at the work of Brian Cheng, you just find yourself believing that each of them is made from a single piece of paper. It seems that it was not without scissors and glue. But, nevertheless, Cheng does not violate the original traditions of this ancient art. As the ancient architects managed to build multi-domed wooden temples without a single nail, so this Chinese American creates absolutely incredible things without any "forbidden" techniques in origami.

And for those who doubt the honesty of the artist, we advise you to watch this video, in which Brian Cheng demonstrates on camera the process of creating one of his paper masterpieces.