Thursday, March 26, 2009

Infinite Print Sketchbook

My idea for the infinite print revolves around the idea of a print being something more than a sheet of paper hanging on a wall. Anyone can print out a picture off the internet, but it would be more interesting if the person actually had a relationship with the print, had to physically do something in order to make it a complete work. The fact that each person would do the same thing to the print is irrelevant because the idea is more that each person will have a unique experience with their art. My idea is to make an image that can be printed by anyone, and then folded into origami to create the actual image. Here is my "final" product.


Here are some of the preliminary origami figures that I made before deciding on the rabbit.

They are supposed to be a peacock (left) and a squirrel (?) (right), although the squirrel, in my opinion looks more like a t-rex. After folding both of these, I decided to try the rabbit for two reasons. First is simply the complexity of the folding of the figures. The peacock and especially the squirrel had a few folds that were a bit too difficult to easily and speedily comprehend. I decided that it was more important that the individual folding be able to understand it easily. Secondly, I liked the idea of the rabbit because proverbially the rabbit is an abundantly reproductive animal, and it is a little humorous that we can make an infinite number of rabbits. Here is the first rabbit that I folded and did some preliminary sketch work on.
In the end I modified the instructions that I found online (at www.origami-club.com/en) to remove a few steps and place it into the print. From this preliminary sketch, I folded another rabbit and traced the edges of each piece so i could map out the sections that needed to be drawn on in Adobe Illustrator, 

and then recreated the features of the rabbit in those spaces at the appropriate angles so that when folded, the page would come out as this final product.
Now anyone can print out this sheet of paper and fold it into this Origami Print of the rabbit, creating an interactive and personal experience rather than a flat print on the wall that one can only look at to appreciate.

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