While I started fooling around with "abstract paperfolding" in the latter 80s when I introduced our oldest to origami, it wasn't until 2005 that I began to move beyond the fun of folding and began to respond, at least at a subconscious level, to the unexpected depth of the painfully simple forms I was creating.
Of late, every time I begin a paperfold I feel like I am taking a step, sometimes more than one step, toward a definitive understanding of something magnificent, primal, essential and profound. Maybe one day I'll figure out why!
While I see my paintings taking me to the foundations of who I am, with paperfolding I feel like I am reaching deeper, entirely beyond myself, my ego, to a whole new order of time and eternity, truth and beauty! I look forward to continuing to paperfold and to getting even clearer about just what is going on in these folds. Loving the jouney!
