Origami

Along side making the clay boats I wanted to experiment with making paper boats using origami. These origami boats add another layer of abstraction to the work which could prove to be very interesting. Origami boats don't really look much like real boats, not in a way thats in the slightest bit detailed at least, but we accept them as symbolically representing boats anyway.

I'm also interested in the handmade quality of the origami itself. Paper boats/hats are made in the same way and its something that a *lot* of people know how to do, and also the material that they're made from is also essentially worthless, which makes origami boats also quite worthless (in a monetary sense). I'd be interesting to make them out of a material that required both money and a fair amount of skill/time to produce and would therefore impart some kind of value onto a form that was originally without value.

Initially I started out by making a CAD model of an origami boat in fusion 360, which you can see above rendered in paper. The proportions here are right however the material hasn't rendered very realistically and also isn't really what i wanted to get out of these experiments, so i then changed the material to polished copper (which you can see below).

This copper boat turned out really well so I copied and pasted it a lot of times to make a whole fleet of origami copper ships.