EXPERIMENTAL TESSELLATIONS
From around 2007 to 2011, I folded... really whatever I felt like. There was such a vast world of patterning potential that it took some time to coalesce into something that could be considered a body of works. These are some of my old patterning studies, meant to test my limits of paper manipulation. These studies barely scratched the surface of the possibilities, but they make for interesting viewing.
The motivation behind many of these pieces was simply that I wanted to see what they looked like when folded. It was a sort of itch that's hard to describe. Sometimes I could get the itch with a simpler piece and sometimes it required a more complex design. Sometimes it demanded color, so I'd apply that to the paper. This was the wide-open vista of exploration. I still explore, but my understanding of the terrain has changed dramatically since then. I regard these old pieces fondly and from time to time, will still put on some good music and just fold a sheet of paper to see what some tiling concept will look like when realized.
Most of these are folded from one uncut sheet of elefantenhaut paper, and if colored, done so with pastels, oil paints, or alcohol dyes. You can see the full archives on flickr.com, or on the origami tessellations and origami corrugations group pages.
Click on an image to enlarge and begin a slideshow.
The motivation behind many of these pieces was simply that I wanted to see what they looked like when folded. It was a sort of itch that's hard to describe. Sometimes I could get the itch with a simpler piece and sometimes it required a more complex design. Sometimes it demanded color, so I'd apply that to the paper. This was the wide-open vista of exploration. I still explore, but my understanding of the terrain has changed dramatically since then. I regard these old pieces fondly and from time to time, will still put on some good music and just fold a sheet of paper to see what some tiling concept will look like when realized.
Most of these are folded from one uncut sheet of elefantenhaut paper, and if colored, done so with pastels, oil paints, or alcohol dyes. You can see the full archives on flickr.com, or on the origami tessellations and origami corrugations group pages.
Click on an image to enlarge and begin a slideshow.
