A Writer's Notebook, Day Eight-Hundred-And-Two

My writing today was still quite slow, and I know I am not feeling as motivated in that direction at the moment, but I am finding that I am having a lot of creative thoughts in other directions, which I believe will allow me to create some very interesting things.  In fact, at some point soon I might begin to start a project and document it here, but I want to get a bit of an idea of what I am doing first.  As I mentioned before, I am getting very interested in paper popup designs, which is an extension, for me, of my interest in origami.  While I had an interest in my youth, what reignited this in more recent years was a lecture by Robert J. Lang, a physicist who became fascinated with origami, applying his mathematical and scientific thinking to the field.  His work offers a proof that any form can be reproduced in paper, if one has a large enough sheet of paper.   I have begun to think of kinetic paper sculptures as fourth dimensional origami, as paper folding with a temporal dimension added.  Now, the principles and tools that Lang created are not an exact corollary for those in the area I am now exploring, but that does not change the underlying realization that there is a great deal more potential within this area, that there are amazing things that can be conceives of and created with the simplest of materials.


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