sennashi_dorei

I've been putting myself through stages of dealing with information types. Just took a long hiatus from Youtube, where I wondered if I'd ever really go back, but I decided to!

It's a source on the internet, and a very good one, at that. Going through, favouriting videos of origami design.. I was thinking to myself: "I could make a dreamwidth post with links for how to make various origami designs and different sources!"

I'm very excited to work on the project, but still in the compiling stage.

A couple things I'm thinking about... well as I go sifting through, thinking about order... I figured I'd use this reverse opening post to talk about how I have been progressing with folding paper.

My real original start was with modular origami. There was a silly thing, where I did not like classical 1 sheet folding at all for a while. If it wasn't modular(aside from things like the basic crane), then I really wasn't interested at all.

Thinking about that, got me thinking to affinities to words... maybe it wasn't that I wanted to use more than one piece of paper, maybe it was that I liked the word modular. I remember even thinking about that when that was what I was doing, but I still couldn't answer you for sure.

After, or as a part of modular development, I got into some types of kusudama, which are modular, but specifically tend to be spherical.

modular origami: more than one piece of paper.
kusudama: more than one piece of paper, making a spherical shaped thing.

I've taken breaks as time moves forward, but generally found ways to upgrade when I can.

For a while, I got into single sheet square folding, and I was terrified of anything other than a square!

There are a lot of great designs with a hexagon base, and it really took me a while to get over my fear of non-squares to move into that. For a while, I went traditional, single square sheet designs, often flowers.

Dahlia, Lily, Rose, tulip...to name a few..

When I look at many of the flowers, it is often the case that I can't fully see exactly how the design could be named after the flower.

Here, my ordering of information has multiple directions it can take. I have very recently gotten into tessellations, which are super amazing. My favourites are Shuzo Fujimoto's clover and hydrangea. Already there's something funny going on with the videos - some are saying　あじさい clover. But the Japanese tends to translate to hydrangea in the dictionaries I use. And if you look at the clover design: I really don't think it looks like clovers at all, and even hydrangea are a bit of a stretch, but still closer.

Anyway, I was always a fan of biomimicry, and wanted to study it in school... but chose alternate paths instead. Looking at these flower designs, often feels like basic biomimicry, so I'm super happy to be there.

Another odd topic: one very common thing to build with folding paper is animals! Like balloon animals, there are paper folded animals, and talk about biomimicry: that's where it's at. Yet awkwardly enough, I just can't make myself interested, like those hexagon-based designs that I swore off for so long. I'm not sure if I'll ever really get into the animals. In every art form, it may not be necessary or even possible to delve into absolutely every subcategory, and I still find myself thinking that I could swear off most animals out of lack of interest, as a complete paradox about my interests in biomimicry, though I hope I might get there one day even just a bit more than where I'm at.. since I do a few, actually.

My big thing for now is basically geometry and usually symmetry, and not much about that has changed since I began.

It regularly has me thinking about affinities for designs versus words that describe designs. If you were to ask me what kind of stuff I like to fold, I might like to say: "things that look good, and awesome." But, isn't that what everyone is folding? Not enough time to fold every design plausible, you go sifting, and find some affinities, and work with them.

So I'm compiling a post of some sources and also just some projects that I have loved to make. Like you can get to know an individual through the words they use, just can also be done through projects they work on, no?

So... no idea if it'll be more than one post, like a series as might make sense.. I get the feeling I'll try to put together a very major list sometime within the next few days.. don't know if it will be tomorrow or not.

Maybe in the future, there could be another. It might end up here, or I could end up migrating to a different website again.

This is the internet, and it's just random points of information that you deal with however you can find so manageable!

Lovely days, oh the ways, nevermind the haze.