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Won Park – The Master of Origami Paper Folding

Won Park – The Master of Origami Paper Folding
Origami is the traditional Japanese art of paper folding. The goal of this art is to create a representation of an object using geometric folds and crease patterns preferably without the use of gluing or cutting the paper, and using only one piece of paper. Won Park is the master of Origami. He is also called the “money folder”, a practitioner of origami whose canvas is the United States One Dollar Bill. Bending, twisting, and folding, Won Park creates life-like shapes inspired by objects living and not– both in stunning detail. One Dollar Koi One Dollar Butterfly One Dollar Camera Two Dollar Battle Tank Two Dollar Chinese Dragon One Dollar Construction Machine One Dollar Crab One Dollar Dolphin Two Dollar Jacket Two Dollar Spider One Dollar Turkey One Dollar Scorpion One Dollar Praying Mantis One Dollar Bat One Dollar Toilet Bowl One Dollar Penguin(Left),Two Dollar Angry Bear(Right) Euro Cockerel Rooster (Left), Euro Eiffel Tower (Right) Enterprise Bottom View Three Dollar Millenium Falcon One Dollar Jet

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