The 13th, 14th and 18th gifts of cutting, weaving and folding are often grouped together because they all share the common material of paper. At the onset of this particular exploration I mistakenly thought that the 18th gift was paper weaving and immediately began to fold pieces of paper into even sections. I meant to use these sections as both a grid to plan out the weaving and to make the paper strips to weave with. Somewhere during this meditative process I realized that the 18th gift was in fact paper folding! I also realized that folding is often the first step I take when working sculpturally with paper (the exploration of gift 7 started with paper folding too). The top picture is of the grid I created by exponentially subdividing a large piece of paper through repetitive folding. The bottom image is of a folded oragami fortune teller, created in a similar subdividing manner. Each form is made up of smaller forms and like previous gifts further develops the idea of parts to whole.
- Liz
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