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Paper sculpture by Chris Palmer

“You and I were born from folding,” says origami artist Paul Jackson.
Jackson isn’t a scientist, but he is aware of the many places that folds appear in nature, from DNA and vital proteins, to geometric folding that changes the space we live in. Jackson is one of a handful of premier origami artists featured in a new documentary called Between the Folds, in which director Vanessa Gould examines the art of origami as well as its relationship to math and science.
The craft of origami originated in Japan and dates back thousands of years, but it included little more than paper cranes until the 20th century. A man named Akira Yoshizawa transformed origami into an art limited only by imagination, creating paper statues that look, as the film says, “as if they’re about to breathe.” ......

Read more at -  http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/breaking/2009/06/03/between-the-folds-the-science-and-art-of-origami/