The Monthly origami challenge on the Origami Forum has had constant entries for over 10 years. In March of 2010 an artist named Beth Moore Johnson submitted a folded Acorn and a pine cone and was declared the winner of the challenge. Today her work is exhibited at the Morton Arboretum in a recent version of the acorn created with her assistance with Kevin Box as a metal sculpture for “Origami in the Garden”. In the next few months thousands of people will walk past this sculpture.
Here are links to her original entry and as it appears today (My photo from the Morton Arboretum) http://snkhan.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=6582&start=45 https://www.flickr.com/photos/firstfold/34540692656 Other winners of this monthly challenge include artists that have been featured in origami conventions around the world including Dr. Stephen O’Hanlon who started the challenge, Jon Tucker who has been a featured folder at Centerfold, Sebastian Limit who has won 7 of these challenges, Victoria Serova whose fantastic mask of Baba Yaga that beat out masks of Barak Obama and Lincoln to win a challenge, Brian Chan for his well known representation of Iron Man, Andrey Ermkov who started the Olympic Origami challenge, Hubert Villeneuve for 5 exquisite entries and one of my favorite folders Quentin Trollip who is a featured folder from Canada. I would like to celebrate ten years of this folding challenge by encouraging as many people as possible to enter the challenge for the Month of June. You must share an on line picture of an original creation that has not been shown before . I will try to make this as easy as possible for anyone to submit an entry. The topic for June is: “Pick a Winner” – Look over the more than 100 topics covered by this challenge and pick any topic you find interesting. You can probably fold anything you want and there will be a matching topic. You will find two lists that show all the topics at the beginning of the Forum on origami (see the link above) Here is a link to the Origami Challenges topic on the Origami Forum: http://snkhan.co.uk/forum/viewforum.php?f=16&sid=beac3d8a11f7a21c25fd26a0fb0c1e6d Here is a list of the topics for the past 10 years (in two separate lists – scroll down to see the second list): http://snkhan.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=6414&sid=ce3d6837d788fad8c4ad32e52ed37788 As to rules, I will let you define your own rules of folding so go ahead use any material, number of sheets, method of folding, and if you must you can even cut. If you enter, please state what rules you followed in making your creation. If you are not a member of the Origami Forum, send me an on-line link and I will enter the challenge for you. Even if you do not plan to enter please look over the past entries for this challenge and comment on your favorite folds, who has the most wins, and who has the best multiple entries, or even who bent the rules the most by folding with odd materials (hmm – that last one sound like me).
