Conversation with Jun Maekawa

Enjoy this rare opportunity to hear Maekawa-san reflect on his long career as a creative origami artist and theorist. From our first meeting in Japan over forty years ago, Maekawa-san and I have traced sometimes parallel, sometimes intersecting paths on opposite sides of the Pacific Ocean. Reflecting on our long friendship, I will be asking him about the genesis of his numerous and varied origami models, including his famous devil; why he is drawn to folding from paper with the ratio one to the square root of two; his fascination with the orizuru, the Japanese paper crane; the convergence of tradition and innovation in his approach to design; and his thoughts on where origami is heading. Don’t miss it!