The human cost of innovation
Anybody who has to deal with me in the next couple of weeks will find I’m grumpy. That’s because I have to make more than fifty of these paper sculptures for the next Green Thought in an Urban Shade exhibition. When I came up with the bright idea of presenting my stories as individual paper sculptures that people could unfold and read, I neglected to consider that me, myself and I would end up making the sculptures.
I am not a naturally deft person, I can’t even plait my own hair, so folding fifty stories is a nightmare. And why, oh why, did I think it would be clever to make the Irish story in the shape of a tree, and the Paris story in the shape of a swan? I couldn’t have picked more fiddly and demanding designs if I’d tried.
I should stick to writing, it’s what I’m good at!
2 Comments
katrina
3rd May 2006But they’re so beautiful and clever!
Richard
3rd May 2006Nice work! Looks like you have knack for paper folding to me! My girlfriend folds paper cranes–we have them all over the house. Yours are very precise looking.