Just to be clear, I don't need to fall in love with paper all over again. It doesn't serve me when I can't fall asleep because I am so excited by stumbling upon something else that I can do with paper. At the moment, I can be perfectly happy with puttering around without becoming completely… Continue reading How to Make a Paper Shadow Box Frame
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Pleating, Tessellating Workshop
Pleated Forms hanging out together, getting ready for zoom teaching at the Morgan Conservatory Perhaps the best things about teaching a pleated structure with tessellating folds is that I get to walk in on these structures in all sorts of lighting. The way lighting defines them changes with placement, time of day, and the angle… Continue reading Pleating, Tessellating Workshop
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Simplest Flexagon
Folded things, flexagon not included This evening I'm teaching a class that Center for Book Arts is called Seasonal Folding. As I'm sitting here preparing my materials, I'm also reading over the class description, with the thought in my head "what was I thinking????" Actually I know what I was thinking. I was thinking that… Continue reading Simplest Flexagon
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Production Pleating
Have created some paper-pleated trimmings for the town office's ten narrow windows. It's been quite the project. Here's how it went. I needed to start with paper that was about 75 inches wide. Pieced this together with three 25 inches lengths, also about 10.5 inches tall. Maybe I could have used taller paper. Next, created… Continue reading Production Pleating
