Word: origami
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...says. In those early years, the shapes had their traditional roots as well. Miyake made a housecoat, called a tanzen, into a hooded wool coat and turned striped cloth used to lead horses on ceremonial occasions into a jersey. He made tucked cotton jumpsuits so intricate that he evoked origami, the ancient art of paper folding, and he turned a farmer's backpack into a knit jacket. Says he: "I was trying to peel away to the limit of fashion...
...Horn Book contains studies in erotic folklore. The Guilt of the Templars is about heresy and sexual perversion in the medieval order of the Knights Templar. Ora genitalism is an elegantly written and anything but smutty study subtitled "Oral Techniques in Genital Excitation." Legman is also an authority on origami, which is not a sexual technique but the gentle Japanese art of paper folding...
...points out, is twofold. First, there is a traditional regard for the symbolism of the materials themselves. Thus, because paper was considered to embody a deity in ancient Japan, you could not cut it (a murder of the god). You could fold it without violation, however, and thus origami and its related art of paper packaging came into being. Second, the package is an act of obeisance to its recipient, rather than a flat invitation to consume. In the material on show at Japan House this idea is beautifully eloquent: the studied attention to design, to the mating of materials...
...plane of sea fringed by blue pudding-stone bluffs is so much stronger than some of the works perched above it that objects like George Sugarman's 18-ft. Kite Castle, 1974, Alexander Calder's stabile or Robert Murray's pleated steel Windhover, 1969, become mere origami. They are gallery art, or at most museum-plaza art, scaled up and deprived of context...
...painting, silk screening, crafting of handmade sterling silver jewelry and making of Dutch eggshell ornaments. Booths which will offer the added excitement of providing audience participation include Ukrainian egg decorating where children and adults can decorate hard boiled eggs under the direction of a skilled craftsman, chess tournaments, Japanese origami and Polish paper cutting...