Origami (for the Living Arts Brochures)

5,000 brochures for incoming students
engineers, artists, musicians,
everything that i am not

the stacks get bigger
the printer is on its last throws:
thirty seconds per sheet
11x17, cut down to 11x11
(i have an innate fear of paper cutters
and i have the scar to prove it)

quarters, don't crease all the way
only an inch in
use your nail, dig into it
feel the toner flick off into under your nail
that's how you know you're doing it right

those were valleys - now the mountains:
flip over: bottom right corner
up and crease
90 degrees
up and crease
90 degrees
up and crease
90 degrees
up and crease
90 degrees

corners into the middle:
the corners all of the lines should line up
(unless i just fucked up the cutting
which is entirely possible)
white should touch green
white should touch orange
four corners in
only crease the middle
or else it won't close

now pinch the middle -
no, the middle, here,
that's it -
left corner over
right corner under
clockwise

no you've got...
well try doing it like...
shit, how did you do...

just give it to me

there. like this.

now flip it over
and fix up the creases
make it look nicer...

no, it's not a reject
it's in the "maybe" pile

alright, let's do another

(if this is how arts live
then i don't want to see how arts die)

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