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A series of twelve photographs displaying a woman wearing origami sculptures as partial masks. The sculptures include paper cranes, frogs, boxes, cootie catchers, and butterflies. Each origami sculpture is printed with a photograph of one or more of the artist’s facial features. She holds the masks so that the printed feature covers that portion of her face.
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Origami Self-Portraits

Miya Turnbull

This is a photograph featuring myself wearing origami sculptures as partial masks. This past Spring I began a new and ongoing series of Origami where I incorporate(d) my image into multiple designs. I was inspired by a video my brother posted showing how to make an Origami Butterfly to celebrate the Japanese holiday Children's Day for the International Children's Festival of the Arts, in St. Albert (Alberta), where he works. We grew up making origami with my mom but this was a design I wasn't familiar with so I tried it out using some of the paper with my face on it that I use for my mask making. I was hoping the eyes would end up on the wings but it didn't, so I had to completely rearrange my 'face' and map it out until it did. This began a whole new series of self-portraits in Origami format which I then later photographed myself wearing the pieces as masks.