{"id":1543,"date":"2011-08-24T17:35:08","date_gmt":"2011-08-24T07:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wonko.info\/365origami\/?p=1543"},"modified":"2024-08-19T09:00:20","modified_gmt":"2024-08-18T23:00:20","slug":"236-sipho-mabonas-koi-carp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wonko.info\/365origami\/?p=1543","title":{"rendered":"236: Sipho Mabona’s Koi Carp"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I first saw installation art, in origami, folded and designed by Sipho Mabona, I knew I wanted to do stuff like that also – this koi is elegant and beautiful:\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Lovely dorsal and pectoral fins, graceful tail and head complete with gaping mouth.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

There is much to admire about this model – it is tricksey to tease the fish from a square and Mabona achieves this fiarly simply – very happy with this as my first fold, althought it was a little fiddly to do the mouth crimps at this scale (I used an A4 cut square).\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I can imagine schools of these, and indeed that is how Mabona displays them – in slight size variations floating in groups as if being fed in a pond – lovely stuff, feel privileged to fold it.<\/p>\n

You can have a go here: pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I first saw installation art, in origami, folded and designed by Sipho Mabona, I knew I wanted to do stuff like that also – this koi is elegant and beautiful: Lovely dorsal and pectoral fins, graceful tail and head complete with gaping mouth. There is much to admire about this model – it is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[38],"tags":[133,57,9],"class_list":["post-1543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fish","tag-30min","tag-s-mabona","tag-square"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7H2NH-oT","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9948,"url":"http:\/\/www.wonko.info\/365origami\/?p=9948","url_meta":{"origin":1543,"position":0},"title":"1044: Geisha","author":"wonko","date":"April 16, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"I attended the 2021 April OUSA Foldfest - a 25 hour online marathon of folding tutorials, lectures and virtual meet nd greet: One of 2 deciding reasons to attend was the opportunity to be taught a model by Sipho Mabona - his \"Geisha\". 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