Everything You Would Ever Need By Cahoonas Watch

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... For Origami.



Designed and folded by me from a 8.5" square of Wyndstone Marble. Wetfolded.



I decided I wanted to update my Deviantart ID/icon thing and create something new. I wanted something that more or less embodied the idea of origami, which really in the end boiled down to having two things: an piece of paper and your hands. However the concept of origami hands folding something is not something new; Jeremy Schafer has several models in his books of paper hands folding common origami bases and Peter Engel also has a pair of hands coming from the paper to fold itself on the cover of one his books.



Instead I chose to make a hand simply holding a square, or as I like to call it, the 'unofficial' step one of origami. In a departure from my usual realistic approach, I tried to go for an abstract look, incorporating wet-folding, curved creases, and a minimal number of layers to achieve a clean sculpted look (to which the marble paper helped immensely in this regard). Most of all, I wanted to create something recognizable and pleasing to the eye.

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Published : Dec 6, 2012