The Art of Interconnection: From Hand to Heart
INDIGO STAR (2024)
Expanding towards infinity, “Indigo Star” manifests the subtle power of an ever-changing cosmos.
Folded from a single sheet of paper dyed in a gradient from Indigo to white, these 672 connected paper cranes create a diffuse pattern to first center the attention of the viewer and then release it in perfect flow towards the infinite.
“If you forget yourself, you become the universe”
Hakuin Ekaku
Size: 40″ x 40″
Materials: 672 paper cranes folded from a single sheet of Japanese handmade and indigo-dyed washi paper.
Materials: 672 paper cranes folded from a single sheet of Japanese handmade and indigo-dyed washi paper.
Background: Washi paper
TAKE (2025)
Size: 22″x 16″
Materials: 131 cranes on Washi paper and Sumi ink
Framed with Museum Quality Glass
Materials: 131 cranes on Washi paper and Sumi ink
Framed with Museum Quality Glass
GLOW (2024)
Size: 23″ x 19″
Materials: 111 paper cranes folded from a single sheet of Japanese handmade washi paper, painted with sumi ink.
Background: Washi paper and sumi ink.
Materials: 111 paper cranes folded from a single sheet of Japanese handmade washi paper, painted with sumi ink.
Background: Washi paper and sumi ink.
Dō (2024)
Size: 48″ x 20″
Materials: 557 paper cranes folded from a single sheet of Japanese handmade and indigo-dyed washi paper.
Background: Washi paper
Materials: 557 paper cranes folded from a single sheet of Japanese handmade and indigo-dyed washi paper.
Background: Washi paper
TSURU SEN NEN (2021)
42″ x 18″
Materials: 199 paper cranes folded from a single sheet of Japanese washi paper.
Calligraphy: Tsuru Sen Nen (“Cranes, one thousand years”.)
Materials: 199 paper cranes folded from a single sheet of Japanese washi paper.
Calligraphy: Tsuru Sen Nen (“Cranes, one thousand years”.)
THE METAMORPHOSIS COLLECTION
Size: 6″ x 18″
Materials: Creation of the crane folded with a single continuous sheet of Japanese washi paper, mounted on tanzaku board.
Framed without glass.
Price $650
Materials: Creation of the crane folded with a single continuous sheet of Japanese washi paper, mounted on tanzaku board.
Framed without glass.
Price $650
The technical process of Renzuru 連鶴
Renzuru is a traditional mode of origami that involves folding a single sheet of paper into multiple cranes connected by fragile bridges of wings, beaks, and tails. These bridges are punctuated by open spaces that are necessary to establish the crane shape in multiples between two and many hundreds. Although Renzuru requires great skill and concentration – one mistake and the entire ensemble is ruined – it still is considered a folk art in Japan. Paula Pietranera has reinvented Renzuru into a highly sophisticated contemporary art form that goes beyond folk art in both style and content.
