Ekaterina Lukasheva (Pavlovic)

Statement

I am a contemporary origami artist and an author of five origami books. I try to pursue the limits of possibility in folding paper by combining curved folding with various tiles and patterns. Origami tessellations are complex geometrical 3-d structures. These surfaces are made using origami technique, which means only one sheet of paper is folded without stretching, cutting or gluing. These 3-d structures are indeed developable surfaces. This also means that those pieces represent the result of continuous isometric mapping of the flat surface to a 3-dimensional surface. It's hard to believe, but they can be stretched back to a flat sheet at any time. Moreover the collapse/stretch process would be smooth.

Artworks

Except for its middle part it is a fractal origami tessellation. Each circle of shapes is similar to the previous circle and these circles can be repeated endlessly to tile all the space. It also possesses an iso-area property, meaning that if you flip it over, you will see the same progressive pattern of shapes, except all the spirals are mirror images of themselves. The central single-spiral part is added to avoid a hole in the middle that would appear in a true fractal due to size of the spirals getting infinitely smaller and impossible to fold by hand.