Origami Exhibition in Clementi Community Day

Yo folks... once again I post after a reaaaly long break. It seems like my blog is only active during School Holidays! Well, today is an exception cos' yesterday was my very first Origami Exhibiton!!

Last week the members of the Origami Singapore group were gathered around some tables at the Clementi Students' Service Center. We were smoothing out the final details of the plan for our exhibition on 21 October. We decided on the table format and model categories and distribution. Much to my delight, I was going to have a whole section to myself as a Singaporean Designer for my creations. Of course, I have to fold them first, so for the next few days I was rushing origami models an hour a day... I also had to buy all sorts of paper for my models... On Sunday and Monday I was rushing to Bras Basah just to buy Elephant hide paper, Canson paper and Meta-cellulose paper which I didn't use at all in the end.

On the big day, I walked in to the room only to see tables and tables of Origami models from local and international folders. There were birds, insects, mammals, aquatic creatures, modular origami, miscellaneous objects,fantasy creatures, simple to intermediate origami and finally models from international folders and original designs from Singapore.


Kawasaki Rose, Simple to Intermediate Origami



Centipede, Insects



Yoda, International Folders



Cigarettes, Matchbox and Pentagonal Ashtray, International Folders



Ancient Dragon, Fantasy Creatures



American Lobster, Local Designers



Cuckoo Clock, Miscellaneous Objects



Five Interlocking Tetrahedra, Modular Origami

Of course, there are many more models in the exhibition, but this post is starting to get a little long. Wanna see more models? Just come to the real thing and see! ^^

Now for my models:

I had set up 5 of my own creations, namely:

The Dragon-Rider



Most visitors to this blog will have been familiar with this model, as this is just an up-grade of my Dragon. One of the spikes on the dragon's back has been converted into a hooded rider on the dragon.

The Knight on Horseback



Ah well... Use better paper!

A House



A 4 x 2 x 3 building block with a 4 x 6 platform perched on top as a roof and a set of doors.

Dragon-Skin



A sort of square tessellation, but in reality it looks really like dragon-skin. As seen from the top and bottom of the model, the scales actually stand out.

A Honeycomb



This is basically a hexagonal tessellation, with walls in between to make it a honey-comb. Actually it's sort of a brick-like rectangular tessellation, but if you let it curve in and lengthen the rectangles will transform into hexagons.

Heheh... I borrowed the bee from the insects section next door!

Within the few hours we had for our exhibition, Eileen Tan set up a small workshop to teach visitors some simple origami models. Some of the models taught were the magazine box, traditional crane, a stand-up heart and a pair of "talking lips" which would open and shut by moving flaps on both sides.


Eileen teaching some guys from SP how to fold the traditional crane


Some of the models taught in the workshop

But the star of the show has yet to come...

In every workshop there simple has to have a difficult model right?
Well, here goes!


Santa Claus

If you need any more clues to fold this model, here's a CP:



Two folds... heheh.
There can only be one model easier than this, and that's here.


Haiz... Wasn't this exhibition fun? Looking at all those models almost made me drool... :) I just feel like folding all of them!

I really hope I can take part in another Origami Exhibition with this fantastic origami group!



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