On 10/5/2014 11:03 AM, Scott Cramer wrote:
Does it not follow that the artist who folds should be called a
folder, and his works be called folds? Scott, who calls a spade a shovel.
I tend to agree with Scott in this respect. While there are origami
designers/composers/creators whose
Greetings Fellow Folders,
For the month of October, at the library of Bronx Community College, I
with my colleagues were able to put together a small exhibition of
Origami from generous loans of OMG-NYC members. If you happen to be in
the area of the Bronx, and want to see this showcase, please
Interesting topic! In many of my readings I have been partial to created term
of origamist for describing both the, to use use a construction analogy,
architect and constructor. I believe that origami is a unique enough art to
require its own word (and hey, why not? :) For those asking to
But that now raises the question of what we call the other half of the
creative act: what word do we use for the physical artwork, and what do we
call the person who folds it?
I want to clarify something I have felt as a truth for some time - the
difference between craft and art: CRAFT is the
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Robert J. Lang wrote:
So, here's the place where I throw it open to the list (or at least,
those who have waded through this long posting): what do you think we
should use as a short, ideally single-word descriptor, of the object and
