Tade Kimura

I am an architecture student with a passion for sketching daily life. I find origami to be a simple yet elegant form of art that requires a deep understanding of its logic to create something beautiful. As a child, I folded origami every day, starting with easy designs and progressing to more complex ones. From this experience, I learned that simplicity in design is not necessarily inferior to complexity.

What I want people to understand is that there is art in both simplicity and complexity, and behind any design, a certain level of logic is always at work. Origami encapsulates this principle exceptionally well. Although origami is generally viewed as a solitary activity, I want to explore ways to turn it into a group endeavor. For instance, while "Senbazuru" involves making thousands of cranes and can be seen as a collective effort, the actual folding is done individually. What if there were a way to fold a crane together as a group?