{"id":331,"date":"2020-11-15T19:35:42","date_gmt":"2020-11-15T18:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/papirfoldning.dk\/blog\/?p=331"},"modified":"2020-11-16T14:14:19","modified_gmt":"2020-11-16T13:14:19","slug":"an-angel-becomes-10000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/papirfoldning.dk\/blog\/?p=331&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"An Angel becomes 10,000"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It is not every day your origami design is folded 10,000 times by others, but that happened to my angel this summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Ripon Cathedral runs the campaign A Wing and a Prayer<\/em> with an installation of 10,000 angels praying under the COVID-19 pandemic. 100 volunteers and 300 children aged 3-90 years helped realise the dream, and the campaign helps funding the Yorkshire Air Ambulance<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The installation is open through 31. January 2021 and the Ripon Cathedral in Northern England, 40 km northwest of York, is certainly worth a visit. Travelling is currently difficult, but you may view videos and images from the installation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Russel Wood<\/a> describes the installation in more detail<\/a> with links to the diagram they used, in cooperation with Reverend Nicholas Mercer and campaign leader Margaret Hammond from the Ripon Cathedral.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This photo by Russel Wood (\u00a9️ 2020) shows the church room where the angels are draped in waves 15 meter above the floor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(The article continues below the image)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Thoughts behind the angel<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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In 2008 I was asked by Pecha Cucha Copenhagen<\/a> if I would give a Christmas themed talk, preferably including the audience actively. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pecha Cucha is a format where you have 20 x 20 seconds to present a topic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So I designed this angel. The rigid design criteria: 20 steps, 7 minutes, a large audience with little prior experience in origami; led to a simple model with a pure and clean design: Wings, dress, and head with a halo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I created instructions<\/a> as a slide show with a front page and 20 pages each with one step. Each page had a title, a gif continuously displaying how to perform the fold, a diagram step, and a drawing of the result of the step.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And thus on the 3. of December 2008 I faced 400 people in St\u00e6rekassen, one of the scenes of the Danish Royal Theatre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Slide from the Danish talk at Pecha Cucha by the author, 2008<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

More variations<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The original model<\/a> had a real neck which looked better from the front. Later I made a cleaner version where the neck was marked only, or even left out (see pattern and instructions below). The Ripon Cathedral’s instructions<\/a> also omits the neck, but folds the flaps on the back orthogonally instead of slanted, which is a bit simpler but changes the halo shape making it more squarish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n