- Pace50 · in between
- No clock and no hurry: you think, take a corner, fold. A model every forty seconds or so, a little koto tune, and a pause when the finished model flies out of the window.
- Difficulty50 · in between
- You can always undo, but the paper wears: more than five folds beyond what's needed and it tears, and you take a fresh sheet. The last models need four well-chosen folds.
- Tone50 · in between
- In between: a box of papers left by someone who is no longer here, a little melancholy, but the simple joy of finding a fold and watching the paper fly away.
- Story35 · in between
- Few words: the name of each model, the name of each place behind the window, and a single sentence at the end. The rest is the box emptying.
- Scale50 · in between
- A table, a box, a sheet, but through the window you see the street, the harbour, the rooftops and the sky where the models go.
- Form50 · in between
- The folding puzzle you recognise, with one simple gesture of its own: you bring one point of the paper onto another, and the fold makes itself in between.
- Look50 · in between
- Neither bare nor crowded: wood, a lamp, patterned papers that show their cream backs when folded, a changing window, and small glows when a model is done.
The theme
In the evening, on a wooden table, a red box full of unfolded papers: sheets that someone we never see used to fold, and which kept their creases. You fold them again one by one, following the model drawn on the lid: a book, a scarf, a house, a flag, a kite, an envelope, a hat, a boat, a sail, an arrow, a fish, a bird. Each finished model goes out through the window, and behind the glass the world changes: the street in the rain, the harbour, the rooftops at sunset, the night sky. At the end the box is empty, and all the papers fly off together.
The mechanics
Take a point of the paper (a corner, the middle of an edge) and slide it to another: the paper folds to bring it there, along the line halfway between the two points. Points snap so folds land true. With the keyboard, the arrow keys step through the possible folds and Enter folds. You must match the shape of the model, flipped or not. You can undo, but every fold wears the paper: too many folds and it tears, and you start again from a fresh sheet.
Palette
Table wood #6a4a32 under a warm lamp, a red box #8a2a2a, patterned papers: waves on red #c8402c, dots on indigo #2a4a7a, leaves on green #3e7a5a, stripes on ochre #d89a2a, stars on plum #6a3a6a, with their cream backs #f4ecdc; a window where rain, harbour, sunset and night go by. Klee One throughout, a handwriting. Calm, precise, a little tender.
