about the gallery

Yuki Tatsumi has a collection of over 15,000 pieces of found "origami art" made by customers folding the paper sleeves that cover chopsticks at Japanese restaurants. A researcher at an art museum in Kameoka near Kyoto, Tatsumi has already exhibited his collection in Japan, and plans to take it to art events in Paris and South Korea later this year. He sees these crumbled abstract pieces of wrappers as unspoken message between customers and their servers in restaurants and wants the collection to remind people to show appreciation and consideration for what they have.