#modular origami

Dodecahedron made of 30x Byriah Loper's Vortex unit, 15cm paper. This unit is a dream to work with, even if it's a little fiddly to fold -- definitely going to make more with this.

This video shows how to make the unit and the 30-unit ball. On-screen text is in Spanish, but you get the idea.

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.

Origami ball with an origami ball inside

bus origami. model by tomoko fuse.

Finally finished, so happy !

Yet another hydrangea kusudama made by following the instructions on this post.