Sipho Mabona Interview

White Elephant Complete!

Congratulations, Sipho!

Sipho Mabona folds Origami (paper 15X15 Meter) at KKLB (Kunst und Kulturzentrum Beromünster) Luzern, Switzerland
WHITE ELEPHANT life-size!
Documentary of the making-of. Final Part 6

See:
Part5
Part4
Part3
Part2
Part1

Morphing Paper Fish

Description:

The main part of this toy is a piece of corrugated paper that can flex into different shapes. However the addition of a fin and a pair of eyes makes it into a kind of a fish! Squeeze the tail and the mouth opens, in quite a realistic way. But Tim always likes exploring new options, and the toy can be folded into a hat, rather like the traditional pith helmet that was worn in the tropics. But there's more... fold it another way, and you get a very strange hat, where the eyes give a very strange effect indeed!

This toy was bought back in 1995, and has not been available for a long time now.

And now I feel like opening up Tanteidan Convention Book 14 and fold Mabona's Puffer Fish:

Topic at the Origami Forum

Large as Life

The Nick Robinson one Himanshu Agrawal folded last year is from a 42-ft. square. The final model stands at 13-ft in height.

For more oversized origami, check out the OUSA Convention competition:

Sipho Mabona's Koi

Amazing video, and beautiful model:



Hat tip: Saj's Origami Forum