#disco objects

Modular origami and ‘disco objects’ (unconventionally shaped objects with reflective finishes) have long been two of my less serious creative hobbies. Every winter since I was a child, I’ve found myself compulsively folding origami paper into Sonobe modules, making 12 to 120 of the same module to assemble into polyhedrons called kusudama. Disco objects emerged from my desire to control and beautify my limited environment at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, when I was convalescing from spinal stenosis and reluctantly living with my parents again as an adult. For Compulsion, I brought modular origami and disco objects together into one entity. It should be the ultimate comfort object, but it seems a bit too sharp for that.

I went into some stores for the first time in a while and discovered that disco objects have hit the mainstream

Totally forgot I took these pictures during the eclipse until I went to edit some photos for work

Damn it. Someone (Fayality on Etsy) already made a disco fried egg. I still wanna make my own some day, but this is cool.

My little Crookes radiometer

Quarantine, week 9: A disco donut.