After the success of making the Origami Crane, I wanted to explore more three-dimensional origami designs. I found a tutorial video on Youtube that showed how to make the Butterfly, Origami style. Making the Origami design of the Butterfly included scissors, which I was a bit apprehensious about because traditional origami is exclusively hands only. In the name of art and innovation, I decided to forget about tradition and go for it, it's origami what can I lose?
Here is the Origami tutorial I used to make my Origami Butterfly! I hope this inspires you to explore transforming the paper-plane into a three-dimensional object.
Below is my process of making the Origami Butterfly.
Origami Butterfly's are adorable! This iteration was probably the least technical, but still engaging because of it's three-dimensional depth and can even fly a little similarly to the Crane. Making Origami can make you feel like a little kid again!
On that note, in relation to the readings introduced throughout the semester, I'm not sure how making Origami relates to the themes that have been discussed. The Origami I have explored is a more playful approach to making, with no political undertones and has no functionality other than being decorative. During my process of making origami, although I liked having the opportunity to making something with my hands, I still felt isolated to my computer. For me to explore a diverse range of designs I needed the internet, and open-source resources to continually challenge myself. I needed to explore more origami designs to keep me interested.
As a result of my dependancy on the internet, and need to explore different designs I felt more of a consumer than a maker who had the possibility of making a political change, or to participate in our consumer social context in a new way.
I don't think I will continue exploring the possibilities of origami.
On that note, in relation to the readings introduced throughout the semester, I'm not sure how making Origami relates to the themes that have been discussed. The Origami I have explored is a more playful approach to making, with no political undertones and has no functionality other than being decorative. During my process of making origami, although I liked having the opportunity to making something with my hands, I still felt isolated to my computer. For me to explore a diverse range of designs I needed the internet, and open-source resources to continually challenge myself. I needed to explore more origami designs to keep me interested.
As a result of my dependancy on the internet, and need to explore different designs I felt more of a consumer than a maker who had the possibility of making a political change, or to participate in our consumer social context in a new way.
I don't think I will continue exploring the possibilities of origami.
I really like the step by step photos of the process you've showed. It makes origami seem less intimidating. It was interesting how that even though you were actively making the origami, you felt more like you were consuming paper.
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