Folded Flowers

...Otherwise known as origami.

So if you have ever been to American Museum of Natural History in New York City around Christmastime, you would have probably seen the Origami Holiday Tree. Here is a link to last year's Origami Holiday Tree (2012). For those of you that do not know of this tradition, every year the AMNH erects a Christmas tree, which has been decorated with origami creations to fit a theme; moreover, the origami is folded by volunteers, who undertake the project in July, while the tree is up and ready for display by November. Last year's theme was Museum Collections. If you are ever in NYC around Christmastime, I would really recommend going to see it~

But seeing as it is most certainly not Christmas (nor even near Christmastime), you may be wondering why I'm talking about the Origami Tree now. If you clicked on the first link above, you would have known that the annual Origami Holiday Tree is an event produced by OrigamiUSA, a society "devoted to origami, the art of paperfolding" as their site will tell you. In any case, OrigamiUSA holds an annual convention which, this year, was at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT). This year's convention was held from June 21 to June 24, and I was lucky to have been able to go with my sister and see all the wonderful origami the convention had to offer, so I decided to share some of the floral related ones with you all. So (after a very lengthy introduction), without further ado, I present to you the OrigamiUSA Annual Convention of 2013.

Enjoy~~

Tried to take pics of the namecards for all the wonderful creations.

 

This was a really cool origami ball that lit up internally at different spots, as you might be able to tell from the three pictures--they're all of the same creation. Also if you can't see the card, it's called Rose Auditorium, designed by Uyen Nguyen and folded by Kailey Shara

How cool would it be to own a flower shop as like this?

A close-up of some of the flowers in the shop:

Money origami! Also, didn't get the artist--sorry!

In its entirety

Tea, for those so inclined--it was really cool because this artist folded origami out of tea bags, some of which can be seen in this picture

Well that's all. I hope you enjoyed the pics as much as I enjoyed taking them! And remember, if you ever happen to be in the area when either the Origami Tree is up at the AMNH or the OrigamiUSA Annual Convention is occurring, I encourage you to go visit!

I leave you with a picture of one of my favorite pieces from the convention--though it's not flowers, it certainly has all the elegance and grace of a bouquet of flowers and is equally as masterful.

I think I have a new record for the amount of pictures in one post. Oops! Until next time then~