On 10/28/2014 9:35 PM, Kathy Stevick wrote:
I was wondering why I will fold my favorite designs over and over again.
I will like a new model for the results but not be motivated to fold it again.
There are exceptional reasons. I would fold an origami model/piece
repeatedly until I am able to produce a specimen the way to my
satisfaction. I know I am perhaps being more finicky than most, and am
trying to seek perfection where none exist. It's challenging, though,
and that is one of the aspects I like about origami.
Boon, who has been folding my later designs since I was physically
compromised and unable to fold as well as I like, has (I believe) lost
count of the number of my pigs and rabbits (in various configurable
postures) he has folded for a variety of reasons. I like to think that
folding those rabbits and experimenting (tweaking) the rabbits in
different postures is a pleasurable exercise for him.
Over the last five to six years, I have literally folded hundreds of
LaFosse butterflies. I started as a way to relieve the grinding boredom
in the early days of a 40-day stay in hospital. I continued to fold more
when the butterflies drew attention and proved popular to the hospital
personnel, my fellow patients and the visitors. I folded even more as
part of my self-prescribed therapy and as door gifts at events at the
hospital where I was warded and the day rehabiltation centre I was
subsequently referred to. More importantly, I folded the butterflies
because I found it pleasurable and exciting to be able to rise to the
challenge to produce such lovely origami pieces with the inelegant and
inefficient folding with just my non-dominant hand.
Ron
