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Origami Sitting quietly chatting sipping fragrant coffee steaming. Mind eyes mind's eye, all independently wandering 'let slip' reins dangling. Peace, as they individually pursue their individual endings. Activity, a quorum and a ladder gather them together, a 'sale' sign erected in a bookshop window. Initially eyes observe a dim and watery reflection, then through glass in feature place big block letters hold sway, blue and bold they say, in a chunky, awkward way, “ORIGAMI” Prompted by irony wryness emerges and as the chosen foreman collars and kicks thought into gear. Now, eyes mind and mind's eye harnessed again do process the title which represents so much then the image under the letters. A space shuttle! In colour in flight, all in folded paper. with what do I associate the pursuit that's here engendered by word so blue and bold, in chunky blocks presented? convey the serene emulate peace and beauty quest for perfection sparse and delicate nature peeks from artistry structure and balance patient creation thought and silence, reflection meditation, poise expressing oneness shown in harmonious folds homage and respect So where lies irony which prompted wryness to action? A matter of perspective pure for the thing in living colour flight, proud beneath the title sends my thoughts off wandering down roads altogether different to quiet contemplation a space shuttle is excitement! Noise smoke and fire, risk! technology subduing nature. The very atoms screaming, harnessed in destructive chemical reaction, to force a cargo up and away past enveloping atmosphere and gravity, the protective embrace of good old mother earth. Man stands astride the world, over his conquered foes! The fish and birds and living things that move upon the ground. Apparatus held aloft and waved science triumphantly brandished! Gleaming instruments the anathema to the pollution which has spawned them. on the cover behind the glass beneath the sale sign, Eastern and Western approaches both, eagerly presented defined, a polyglutenous combination of idea-medium-form, designed to render artistic thought mere technical reality. ©T.Arnold
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