cool jwoody, you did it! easy isn't it?I find it very therapeutic. It's cool you guys are so receptive to origami. I think you can make really beautfiul things with it. I have yet to progress to more difficult levels of it, such as the kawasaki rose...now that's a real hard one. I didn't make this up myself, a friend taught me. As for their fragility...I think you can develop them I've tried making things in sheet acrylic, it works ok. I'm thinking of making this dodechaderon as a lamp shade for my dining table, if it works I'll show you. Also I have made sculptures with origami before, and if you give it all a coat of PVA glue, it goes hard (albeit shiny). There's ways around it if you use your imagination!
edit: found this link for Kawasaki rose instructions...really daunting
Kawasaki Rose PDF
foto of said Rose:
also, here is an online site that sells bouquets of origami roses...cool gift idea!
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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