Folding by hand is as low tech as any making activity can be. You are making something directly with your body without the intervention of third party tools such as pencil, mouse, camera lenses or needles. It is an almost unique making experience and perhaps unfamiliarly primal. This very basic, hands on activity especially in today's high tech studio environments can be very powerful and rewarding experience and cannot be considered unsophisticated or inadequate.
I have been slowly teaching myself the art of folding paper . I am addicted to the process and am amazed at the flexibility of paper which allows the transformation and the fluid movement of forms. I am curious to see how drawings on paper folded thereafter could lead to the fracture images or interesting distortions. At the moment I am enjoying taming the paper without thinking too much about the final outcome or the use of this technique.
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