Sunday, March 11, 2007
Haiku Week, Day 4
Paper hummingbird
A creased and discarded leaf
Fallen, torn, reborn
This one’s not as complicated as usual. It’s a little ode to my most complex piece of origami to date, a hummingbird from a design by Peter Engel. It’s interesting to me that something like that can be made from the photocopied scraps in the recycling bin.
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I think you may have gotten the simplicity you were looking for- with this one.
Mairin - I read that some prisons have the inmates do origami because it seems to have a calming effect.
Since you're too violent even for that I'm not sure what they'd do with you. "Who's in there, and why are there so many locks on the door?" "That there's Multiple Mairin. Stabbed the warden in the neck with a half-made paper swan during her parole hearing. It took fourteen guards to subdue her. Most of 'em still got the papercuts."
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