Word: origami
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...TIME receives from readers each year come occasional gifts of photographs, artwork and embroidery. But none in recent months was quite as surprising as the 3-ft. by 5-ft. by 1-ft. crate that contained 1,000 colorful paper birds folded, largely from pages of TIME, in Japanese origami style...
...folds 1,000 cranes will be granted a wish. The present project was inspired by Sadako Sasaki, a girl who survived the bombing of Hiroshima but died eight years later, at age ten, of leukemia caused by exposure to radiation. In the hospital, Sadako began folding 1,000 origami cranes. She could not finish them before she died, but her friends and classmates completed the task...
...edge of figuration is Chicago-born Elizabeth Murray, 44. Since Frank Stella, American painting has been littered with shaped canvases, but Murray has brought a wonderful energy and flair to her use of this quintessentially late-modernist device. Her shaped panels are folded, superimposed, somewhere between collage, sculpture and origami. She wants them, as she says, "to feel as though I threw them against the wall and they came together with a purpose not that consciously controlled." The air of improvisation is deceptive. Murray has an exacting sense of the relations between internal drawing and silhouette. Sometimes, for this reason...
Karmarkar's technique does not attempt to calculate the location of every solution but takes a circuitous route, eliminating groups of combinations without actually considering them, all the time changing the shape of the dome. The mathematician compares this search to origami, the Japanese art of paper folding: the pieces of paper are creased and shaped until the perfect corner - the long-sought solution - is in the center of the figure...
...show will include everything from an exhibit of art and photographs and demonstrations on Chinese calligraphy. Japanese origami and woodblock printing to a martial arts exhibition, and a fashion show of Indian and Pakistani clothing...