44th Anniversary: Connection

 

 

Connected Wishes You are warmly invited to the opening reception, where a special artwork will begin to take shape in the hands of artist Paula Pietranera. Guests will be able to write a wish on a card and place it in a bowl. Throughout the evening, these wishes will be carefully transcribed onto Washi paper and folded into cranes, so that the piece comes to life from the very first day.

 

After the reception, every wish collected will be written into a connected crane through the Renzuru technique, forming an artwork of around 200 cranes. Once complete, the finished piece will be raffled among all participants.

 

Come celebrate the opening, add your wish, and become part of a work of art that will continue to grow long after the reception.

 

The term RENZURU (“conjoined cranes”) refers to an origami technique whereby multiple cranes are folded from a single sheet of paper, employing a number of strategic cuts to form a mosaic of semi-detached smaller squares from the original large square paper. The resulting cranes are attached to one another (e.g., at the tips of the beaks, wings, or tails). The trick is to fold all the cranes without breaking the small paper bridges that attach them to one another.

 

The first appearance of renzuru is in a book published in 1797, titled Hiden Senbazuru Orikata (the secret methods of making a thousand conjoined cranes). The author, Gido (1762-1837) was the chief priest of Choen-ji Temple.

 

“Paula Pietranera has reinvented Renzuru into a highly sophisticated contemporary art form that goes beyond folk art in both style and content.”
Dr. Mark Levy
– Professor Emeritus of Art History, California State University.

 

“The Art of Interconnection: From hand to heart”
https://paulapietranera.com/connection/