SevOrigami: Project Wallet
Origami is such a fascinating form of art; I’ve always been amazed by how you fold the papers, fold and fold, an d then, you make a twist, or something unexpected by opening and refolding the creases, and there you have it: an object! It is either a decorative item such as a figure of an animal, a flower, or even a portrait. Or, the paper becomes a functional item that could be used in everyday life. An envelope, or a box, a hat. Or in my case, a row boat that could be used as an ashtray.
For this reason in particular, the transformed boat, I tired using aluminum foil instead of paper so that the base of the boat would tolerate the the fire of the cigarette when you need to kill it. But, I believe the aluminum lacks some element of elasticity in comparison to paper; the corners broke as I was performing the final and the trickiest fold. Which was fine, only that I had to tape them so the boat wouldn’t lose its structural integrity.
Generally speaking, I am a big fan of functional objects. I stumbled upon paper shopping bags, which provide a large nice piece of paper. This could’ve been taken advantage of by simply making a drawing. Or to play around and practice better origami.
I came up with a couple of ideas. One of the most genius origamis I learned was to make a wallet. And the final product looks even more charming after all the abstract folds, to end up with a completely different design which as well concludes the prints and marks already on the shopping bags. These shopping bags are themselves made of recycled papers, for most of the bags. This makes the origami a repurposed item made out of recycled materials.
At any rate, I look forward to finding the shopping bags in random places. For most of the time, people use them once, and they have to leave them outside because either they already have too many, or they’ve been damaged slightly.
The only thing that I do here is that I collect the clean nice bags, usually with a curious image on top, measure and cut, and fold into neat wallets. I actually quite enjoy it, which makes me curious about origami even more.
On SevOrigami, you can have a look a closer look at the wallets, see more examples, and order one for yourself.