ALBA

Alba is an origami artwork composed of 984 paper modules, meticulously

folded and assembled to create a striking pattern and shape. The focus of the

project was on the repetition and patterning involved in the origami process,

resulting in a piece that can be interpreted in many different ways.

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Alba, side view.
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Alba, inside view.

984 modules, or 7,872 folds. Folds that are folded, unfolded, badly folded, crooked, too pronounced, invisible, sometimes stained. Not to mention the failed ones, the torn ones, the lost ones. The paper twists and folds into mountains and valleys. And the formed modules accumulate, develop, swarm, multiply. Flexibility gives way to a fragile rigidity. I make a multitude of them, an infinity, to create a unity, to generate a form. An egg, a fruit, a flower; everyone is free to see another identity in it. The form is reassuring, familiar, though intriguing. And I continue to assemble, stack and interlock the triangles endlessly.

 

A few dots of glue for the smallest of the rings, without wanting to admit that it’s cheating. A few stitches to tighten the second one.

 

And it’s finished, after two weeks.