Seth wrote:
>Wiring and/or gluing, acid free paper etc. are definitely necessary for
long living origami works.
Can I offer you another perspective? Acid free paper is paper so folding it
is, of course, paperfolding.
However, supporting an origami structure with wires, especially concealed
wires, or glue, or coating it with varnish, changes the nature of what you
are doing. The question is whether you are still actually producing origami
sculptures or rather now working in some kind of multi-media? I would
certainly be very disappointed in a paperfolder who presented such a
sculpture without pointing out how it had been achieved.
I believe that paperfolding at its best - and at its most artistic - is just
paper and just folding. If you need to strengthen or support a structure in
another way then what you have done is to out-design the paper - gone beyond
what the qualities of paper, and the process of folding, allow you to do.
If I reach this point with my designs I pull back and try to simplify and
work within the parameters of paperfolding ... and I would recommend this
approach to you. It is a highly rewarding one.
Dave