“An artist is an ordinary person who can take ordinary things and make them special.” — A dose of Monday inspiration from artist Ruth Asawa (1926–2013), seen here working on one of her paper origami sculptures. Asawa studied origami at the Japanese Cultural School. Later on at Black Mountain College, her teacher Josef Albers assigned design problems in which students transformed paper from two dimensions to three dimensions by folding it. Two of her commissions, Aurora and the Nihonmachi fountains, stemmed from these “origami” paperfold designs. Source: Robert Snyder’s film, Ruth Asawa: Of Forms and Growth. A Masters & Masterworks Productions.
August 30th, 2016 7:52am
