Horse Heads
This turns out to be a very popular sculpture, with an appeal to horse lovers everywhere, both inside and outside the origami world. I'm often asked often how I came up with it. The answer is basically what you would expect. I have several ‘full horse’ models that I'm still tinkering with (have been since 1989....). On one, the ears were unsatisfactory; so, in 2004 while out at a fast-food shop I did a blow-up-study , focusing only on the head. That left excess paper, which got folded out of the way in overlapping flaps. The results—a little like barn or stable doors with the head peeking out—pleased me; and so, a New Model . Recently (2011), prompted by a fan who was enthused by just this shape, I picked the model up again and put much improved eyes & ears on it. Now, the above is easy enough to say. But it also happens that during those seven years of gestation, the thinking in origami has progressed, and mine has along with it. 1. For ...