Self-Made Legs (Ode to a Square)

Folded in 2023 from a rectangle of heavy Arches watercolour paper

Model height: ca 20cm

This is a nod to one of the very first artists using origami as their medium, Eric Joisel. One of his iconic models, the cartoonish “Self-Made Man” features a character whose head, hands and feet emerge from the back of a paper square