Box composed of two parts: base and lid, each made from a sheet of Japanese washi paper (washi: hand-made paper, silkscreened)
Artwork Details
Medium
Washi paper
Context
This model was donated by Tomoko Fuse during the annual OrigamiUSA Convention in New York. Wendy Zeichner, president of OrigamiUSA, coordinated the delivery and transfer of the piece until it could be transported to the Museo del Origami in Uruguay.
Made/Created
Artist Information
Artist
Fuse, Tomoko
Role
Designer and folder
Date made
2016
Notes
About the artist:
Tomoko Fuse (b. 1951, Japanese)
Tomoko Fuse discovered origami as a child and later became one of the foremost artists in modular origami. She is known for her innovative polyhedra, geometric structures, modular boxes, and kusudama—decorative paper spheres assembled from multiple folded units. Since the early 1980s, she has published over 60 books in Japanese, Korean, and English, contributing significantly to the development of contemporary origami. (Source: Meher McArthur and Robert Lang, Folding Paper: The Infinite Possibilities of Origami (Washington, D.C.: International Arts & Artists, 2011), ISBN 978-0-9662859-6-3.)
