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Alun Kirby

This is 'crumple' origami. Used a lot by French origamists 'Le CRIMP'.

Thin, crisp paper (here tracing paper) is folded and then crushed. The process allows the paper to be shaped into flexible, organic forms.

This paper was coated in cyanotype. The form I made was exposed in the sun for 10 minutes, and developed.

If I hadn't put my fingers through the wet paper it would be good!

An origami form made of crumpled, matt blue paper. It looks like irregular square open cones, points away from us, which join at their upper edges. There are 16 of these cones, but only 4 are clearly fully visible, as the overall structure is like a hemisphere and the other cones are not facing our viewpoint
A single piece of white paper, which looks like it has been divided into 16 squares (4 by 4). Each square has an abstract starburst of blue lines - the lines all come from the centre of each square. The overall effect is that this is 16 individual squares stuck together, but it's not. It's just one sheet of paper, which used to be the origami form in the previous image. The cyanotype exposure has made these patterns.
A close up of the coming together of four corners of the squares in the previous image. The 'joins' are clearly creases
Close up of a single square from the overall image. Fragments of 8 other squares can be seen around it; four joining at the sides looking like strips of stripes, and four at the corners looking like small squares. All is blue and white stripy loveliness
#cyanotype#origami#blueprint
Aug 16, 2023, 10:59 AM·Public·Web
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