Come out to Renegade! I will be there this weekend alongside with other amazing artisans, craftmakers, designers, and artists! This will be the prime spot to get unique holiday presents for the whole gang. Hope to see all you there!

More Paper Units

Folding units

Design layouts / playing with an idea

 

Finished unit origami pieces

Paper Mobile

Units United

Part of a mobile I recently made (pictures coming soon!)

The Institute For Figuring in Los Angeles (screening of Ron Resch's movie "Paper and Stick Thing Film")

Highly recommend this wonderful inspiring institute for knowledge! I have been following this non-profit for awhile with the intention of going to one of their events. The IFF typically sends out emails letting you know what events they have planned (the emails are never excessive, more inviting than anything) and all the workshops/lectures/movie screenings/etc are FREE. 

Recently I attended a screening for a Ron Resch movie called "Paper and Stick Thing Film", a rare movie from the 1970s that documents Ron Resch's research/work from the critical period of 1961 - 1969. Highly recommend it to all who are interested in paper folding or not. Ron Resch actually got his Masters in Fine Art, but definitely explored the realms of  mathematics, tesselations, origami, giant paper structures, play with light and sound, even 3D graphics and the list goes on. 

A very innovative man with a giant brain. Thank you IFF for sharing Ron's work with your community! Visit their website at http://www.theiff.org/ for more info and make a donation if you can!

A Present for Hicks

I made this for a dear friend of mine named Casey for Christmas. Unbeknownst to most, I wanted to make something personal for him to display in his room to which I decided on using his middle name is Hicks.

 

 Went to a local lumber store called Austin Hardwood Lumber located in Santa Ana, CA (http://www.austinhardwoodsonline.com/) that was recommended by a close friend because I wanted to use a different type of wood that had a bit more character. I was able to find this really interesting wood called Zebra-wood, it has really light golden wood lined with a burnt sienna resembling the stripes of a zebra. I ended up putting a water-based polycrylic protective finish on the piece which darken up and made the stripes more vibrant.

Old Pictures of Practice