Origami Park

[corvideye]

I dreamed of a Chinese park where people leave origami on the ground or in trees for others to encounter and appreciate; I had been seeding my four-petal paper lotuses, and particularly liked the way the metallic foil ones gleamed at night when you caught them with a flashlight. There were also intricate papercut streamers you could buy and hang from trees, including ones in black paper for the dead. I wanted to buy some of those just because they were very beautiful, and hoped no one would be offended if I did (since I wasn’t of that religion and wasn’t buying them for someone in particular). I was also going to buy some white windhorses to put up in the house, and some tiny little key cutouts for a collage I am (in waking life) working on. In amongst the gardens and streams there were beautiful buildings like at the Portland Chinese Garden, and I was worried about getting to see everything in the amount of time I had before our group regathered.

Later, there was the amazing image of looking down into a deep chasm of clear water beside a road and seeing a bird of prey flying underwater—just like in the air, but in slow-mo.

I wish there really was an origami park! Here, though, it would have to be a summer-only phenomenon.

Comments

[elfie-chan.livejournal.com]

I love that idea! And people could write messages on the paper they fold, if they wanted to.

Imagine if origami was the admission one paid to get into such a park--you must give of yourself to receive/enjoy what others have given.

Such a nifty dream.

[memegarden.livejournal.com]

There's a statue of Sadako in Seattle that usually has a garland of a thousand paper cranes draped on it. Not the same one, since it's been in good shape every time I've seen it.

[shiningmoon.livejournal.com]

How marvelous that would be!