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IcerocketRobert J. Lang demonstrates origami techniques in conjunction with Star Studio exhibition, 'Square-Folds-Life: Contemporary Origami by Robert J. Lang.'
I am Robert Lang. I am here in the Star Studio at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, and I am here to fold a bird.
We will start with the paper white side up, oriented like a diamond.
Take one corner
fold it to the diagonally opposite corner
and get the corners lined up and then flatten the crease so it runs from corner to corner.
And when the crease is fully flat, smooth it out so that the crease becomes sharp.
Next, we will take one of the two corners and fold it over, like turning the page of a book, to line up with the other corner.
And when those are lined up, we will flatten it out so that the new crease runs to the corner as pointing away.
Next, we take both corners and fold them together as if they were one layer.
Fold them up so that they touch the remaining corner of the triangle.
Press the crease flat, and then unfold both of those two corners.
Now, we will take the right-angle corner and its adjacent edge
and we will fold all layers together so that that adjacent edge touches the long edge.
Then, we will press it flat,
and then unfold.
We have now made two creases, one that runs this way, one that runs to the corner and those creases intersect at this point.
We are going to make a fold that runs through the intersection. That is, we lift up the corner so that our fold runs through the intersection,
and we are going to fold the corner down so that the edges line up and the fold still runs through that intersection point
and then we will flatten that out.
Then, we unfold it again,
and we will unfold one more time.
We now have all the important guide creases
in the bird, but the most important one is the last one we made which runs along here. We are going to take a single layer, and we are going to fold it
along that crease.
Next, we will take
the corner and fold it back, almost to the hidden layer. Here is the hidden layer.
Fold the corner a little bit short, about that far away, flatten it,
and then fold it back the other direction
so that the paper does a little zigzag.
Now, we will fold everything in half.
Once again, we look for the crease intersection. There is the crease here, there is a crease here, and there is the horizontal, and they all run through a single point.
We will lift up one flap and make a crease that runs through that point.
And flatten it so that this makes a right angle
and that the edges line up.
Then, we turn the paper over,
and we will fold the other flap the same way to match.
Now, this will be the head, these will be the wings, and this will be the tail. We are going to fold the corners of the tail down
so that the raw edge lines up at the long folded edge
and, as it turns out, that fold will hit the corner at the same place as another fold.
Turn the paper over. Do the same thing on the other side.
The very last folds are to remove this corner of the head to make the head a little smaller, and we will do that by folding it into the inside of the paper
and then we will do the same thing with the other layer. The easy way to make them line up is to first wrap the edge around
and open it up and tuck it inside.
And now we are done, and all that is needed is to spread the wings
and we have our flying bird.
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