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Yes, it really is origami! However, Joel’s work is really a genre unto itself. It’s continually amazing.
Also, for what it’s worth, these two works are for sale by Joel- check out the contact info on his flickr page if you’re interested.
-Eric Gjerde (big Joel Cooper origami fan!)
Yes, it really is origami! However, Joel Cooper’s work is really a genre unto itself. It’s continually amazing.
Also, for what it’s worth, these two works are for sale by Joel- check out his contact info on his Flickr page if you are interested.
-Eric Gjerde (a big Joel Cooper origami fan!)
Eric,
Thanks for passing along the info. He’s seriously good
!!!!!
Please pass along any links of more galleries if you can. Cheers!
Well, I would highly suggest the “Origami Tessellations” photo pool on flickr; Joel is a member there, as well as a number of other origami artists.
it’s at http://www.flickr.com/groups/origamitessellations.
(I have a lot of my material in there too, but it’s nothing compared to Joel’s level of artistry!)
You might also try the wonderful human figures of Hojyo Takashi, another of my favorites; and the designs of Brian Chan, who makes really lifelike animal and insect creations.
FWIW, Takashi’s “Raijin” is probably my favorite origami work, ever- it’s mindblowing. all from one sheet of paper!
Origami can only be called this if its starts with a single square of paper and has no cuts in it. Nice thou.
Chris- that’s not exactly true, but even so, Joel’s work has no cuts in it and is made from a square (or sometimes a rectangle). The above masks are made entirely from a single sheet of paper, using just folds, nothing else.
Origami is a made-up word, a combination of “oru” (meaning to fold) and “kami” (meaning paper). It’s not exactly a traditional thing, since paperfolding in Japan was typically referred to as orikata, and not origami. The use of the word “origami” was promoted in the West by Lillian Oppenheimer and the whole NYC origami scene in the 50’s and 60’s, as well as Robert Harbin in the UK.
Lots of origami- particularly traditional models- rely upon cuts being made in the paper. It’s only recently with the influx of mathematicians and scientists getting involved in origami that extremely complex pieces can be made without needing to cut anything. So to say that something must not have cuts and be from square paper to be origami is not entirely accurate.
That being said, a lot of folks these days feel the need to adhere to that standard; I personally use whatever paper I feel like using, as paper geometry is a non-issue for me. I don’t use cutting, though, as that seems like cheating to me, or at least making shortcuts rather than trying to figure it out the “hard way”.
Joel has more or less created a new genre of origami art here, taking the complexity level up several notches above where it’s been until now. And he’s done it following extremely strict personal rules, which exceed that of even purist folders.
Just thought I’d mention that, so anyone else finding this understands that his work is much more complex than they might think.
-Eric Gjerde
Well i did`nt know that, Fair Play i think i may have read it in a book i have. So its all just clever folds? Wonder how big the paper was when he started.
That is awsome……