About

Nikhil Patel is 2nd-year studying Computational & Applied Math. He has been doing origami on and off since elementary school, and thanks to UChicagOrigami, he has found a wonderful community of fellow origamists in college. What he loves about origami is how paradoxically simple yet complex it is; you can make any shape you want, no matter how intricate, yet it always comes from a humble square of paper (or rectangle if you’re willing to engage in some light blasphemy).

This exhibit features a few pieces made out of large sheets of paper from UChicagOrigami’s meeting during Week 6 of this quarter. Nikhil enjoys folding with large paper because it allows for highly detailed pieces, and in this case, many recursive layers and tessellations with many repetitions. These models both involved very risky steps where the paper easily could have torn, but the final product is worth all of the stress along the way.

Instagram: @if_you_give_a_nikp4002_a_paper

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Models

Hydrangea
2 ft. butcher paper
Shuzo Fujimoto
Co-folded with Pascal Knowles

   

Square Weave Tessellation
2 ft. butcher paper
Eric Gjerde