When he was a child, Dave Hay was sick for a week with the mumps. His mother became so desparate from his boredom that she went out and bought him a copy of Tokinobu Mihara’s ORIGAMI- JAPANESE ART OF PAPER FOLDING. When he recovered, he went to the library and bought more books and filled the house with paper models. In New York City, he met Lillian Oppenheimer, who’s monthly folding sessions at her Origami Center of America inspired him to learn more origami. When “Friends of the Origami Center” was formed to carry on her legacy, he was an early board member.
One thing that has fascinated him is how westerners have taken on Origami and invented models that go beyond most of the traditional models. He is in particular a big fan of John Montrol, who has the uncanny ability to view an animal, understand its proportions like an artist, and then convert a square piece of paper into that shape.
email David: dch@essentialstrategies.com |
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