Photograph by Meg Ellis
Seventeenth and Nineteenth Gifts
When combined with paper interlacing (Gift Seventeen), paper folding (Gift Eighteen) appears to lead to the creation of SAMARA's copper fascia design of winged seeds in motion. The three-dimensional design arises from flat material folded and laced at angles of 30 and 60 degrees.
Pea work (Gift Nineteen) consisted of constructing flat two-dimensional models of squares and triangles and then combining them into three-dimensional forms. At SAMARA, brick masses and roof projections are oriented in various planes representing cubes, polyhedrons and other shapes, like in Froebel's crystallite structures.