Organic Origami

Halfway through the project, it still feels like I just started. Unlike last year’s 50 Waves, I went into this one without a precise idea of what to do, other than rely on nails as much as necessary to produce interesting shapes and surfaces. There are at least two “series” emerging here, one using twisted pleats, the other spiral pleats. Twisted pleats are a device I used before, but in the context of pleat tessellation bowls, and with one exception (in which the twisted pleats are not even visible), I had always fully flattened square twists at pleat intersections. I am happy about the progressive “contrary motion” pieces and have already folded a larger tessellation-style pattern, but there is much more to do.

I had never seriously thought about spiral pleats, and all the pieces so far that use them are very simple, but they are simple to form and very flexible, as long as one doesn’t mind using long rectangles.