Hello Michael, thank you! It's in this year's calendar, 2025. Last weekend, 19th, 20th July.
Here is the complete text. I can't find a reference: "Save the Butterflies with Origami! Sir Christopher Spink (ca. 1895-1925) was a Scotsman obsessed with butterflies, traveling the world to discover new butterfly species, including the Variegated Plumecast. But he didn't want to kill rare butterflies in order to preserve and document them. So he turned to origami, folding beautiful versions of the butterflies he found. Spink was well known in the Scottish Highlands in the early 1920s as an eccentric, and could be found juggling while riding his bicycle. But he'd been long forgotten when the manager at a writer's center in Inverness- shire discovered Spink's folded butterflies while clearing out a space in the eaves of their 18th-century building. The center began to research Spink, calling him "the world's first vegan taxidermist," and has mounted an exhibition of his work." Best regards Dirk Eisner Am Mo., 21. Juli 2025 um 22:03 Uhr schrieb Michael LaFosse < [email protected]>: > Hi Dirk, > > > The piece about Christopher Spink and the discovery of his framed origami > butterflies is a work of fiction, titled "Edwardian Vegan Artist > Rediscovered in Highland Vault," appearing on the Moniack Mhor website on > April 1st (yes, April Fool's Day) 2022 and was, unfortunately, soon picked > up by several news sources as legitimate. It seems likely to continue to > spread online as a true story (Ugh) like the "Won Park: Origami Master Who > Lives in a Garbage Truck" story. > > The article included that photo of the framed origami butterflies. I do > not know who created the framed "artifact," but they were certainly folded > from my published designs. The framed collection includes five Origamido > Butterflies, two LaFosse Moths, two Nolans, and one each of the Baxter, the > Michael Shall, and Evangeline's Fritillary. > > What year of Margaret van Sicklen's Origami Page-a-day calendar did you > read about this in? > > All the best, > > Michael LaFosse > > On Jul 21, 2025, at 8:50 AM, Dirk Eisner via Origami < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > Hello all, > > this weekend I found an interesting story on the Origami Page-a-day > calendar by Margret van Sicklen. > It's about a Scotsman Christopher Spink (ca. 1895-1925) who was obsessed > with butterflies. > Btw, the story has the date 1st April. > > Best regards > Dirk Eisner > >
