Cary Staples
Math and art are both ways of understanding and describing the world. I am trying to understand what I do not know by moving back and forth between these ways of knowing. Each time I make a move, I learn.
Straight on view with the light off.
While trying to solve the problem of making a flexible material,
that would not conduct electricity, strong enough to stop a
projectile, I discovered this fold.
By making a series of folds, in a systematic sequence, the paper
evolved into a new form capable of movement, but with additional
strength.
The light and wires in the background allude to the electronics to
be protected. The origami is free hanging and flexible.