BIG WHITE PRAYING MANTIS (ORIGAMI)
photography by CHRISTOFFER JOERGENSEN
www.christofferjoergensen.com/
you can view the CP on my blog:
www.mabonaorigami.com/blog/2009/10/13/big-white-praying-m...
I folded a new renditon of the praying mantis for a show at the QUEEN ELM’S GALLERY in London. there will be 4 pieces of mine and 3 art prints of my CP’s on display. the gallery is in 241 Fulham Road, Chelsea. the show will be open to public from 16th - 18th October.
Comments and faves
StephenCotterellPhotography, José Herrera, Ernani Rocha, occasional folder, and 109 other people added this photo to their favorites.
José Herrera (44 months ago | reply)
looks so good
I love this
What paper do you use?
jongardner015 (44 months ago | reply)
Wow, its the eyes and those thin antenie which make this model so amazing. I read about you in the newspaper (Metro) the other day. This has to be one of my favourite models in the origami world.
Ernani Rocha (44 months ago | reply)
show !!!!!!
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Seen on my Flickr home page. (?)
Oriholic Jared (44 months ago | reply)
Damn that Mantis has personality! Looks like he's really annoyed with all the photography!
How big is the "Big Mantis", and how long did it take to fold this time?
And I really like your friend's photography.
Arturori (44 months ago | reply)
Great. I have plan fold this model.
shuki.kato (44 months ago | reply)
Absolutely extraordinary!!
Sunburst2000 (44 months ago | reply)
Wow... Just wow. It looks really good!
Finward (44 months ago | reply)
Wow! this exec ution is virtually perfect... O.O
Al3bbasi. (44 months ago | reply)
Wow,amazing!
Pere Olivella (44 months ago | reply)
Buf!! Great Sipho!!! And great Christoffer too :-)
Ares. (44 months ago | reply)
just amazing!!
Wizmatt (44 months ago | reply)
Amazing model!
Congratulations on the exhibition! Sadly I can't get there this weekend :(
MABONA ORIGAMI (44 months ago | reply)
thanks guys!
@ Jared: it took pretty long to fold. 10-12 hours of which i think almost half was shaping and fidling around with the pose, going through pictures of the real thing... the 20 hours was not for the mantis but for the trilobite. this guy actually isn't that big but big compared to the other insects i've folded. it's arround 8 inch long.
MV origami (44 months ago | reply)
The segmenting, I should say plating, is incredible. The entire fold is just fantastically done.
P u n k c o r e | v n ☮ (44 months ago | reply)
that's nice..^^:P
GonzalezNovo (44 months ago | reply)
Vaya obra de arte, excelente
slipkntorigami (44 months ago | reply)
Beautiful. SImply amazing. Very nice work on the eyes.
...john (44 months ago | reply)
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Divine Geometry, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
costevol (44 months ago | reply)
This is cool...what is made of?
Wild Cakes (44 months ago | reply)
WOW! Love it!
Den_Dove (44 months ago | reply)
Ouch, in the tumbnail, i thought it was a 3D modelling render...
Amazing job !
Oriholic Jared (43 months ago | reply)
Hey Sipho, not sure if these photos are of any interest to you, but I found them on my computer from a mantis I found in my yard a couple years back:
MABONA ORIGAMI (43 months ago | reply)
thanks Jared, they are interesting indeed!
Aidilvic (41 months ago | reply)
Wonderful capture!!
Fantastic!
origamiPete (40 months ago | reply)
this is absolutely amazing! top notch model!
npvru (40 months ago | reply)
I want to fold it :)
Akhil Oswal (39 months ago | reply)
Wow!! The eyes are so real!!How did you make the legs so thin?
impeccable fold!!
tskorigami (35 months ago | reply)
simply fanntastic..................butterflies, mantises, mosquitoes have ridiculously thin legs, which makes them hard to fold-but you've done that.......great mmodel!i originally wanted to fold this from cp, but it looks too difficult for me O_o
lupiyo/mty (33 months ago | reply)
wow
evi binzinger (31 months ago | reply)
fantastic!
dodgediplomatsareawsome! (27 months ago | reply)
wow!
Origami's friend (27 months ago | reply)
hi sipho mabona do you make diagram for this?
matheus2822 (27 months ago | reply)
how do you fold those little squares in the cp
AnimalExplorer (24 months ago | reply)
Wow! Fantastic work. You are like a sculpter but with paper. Truly talented. Thanks for sharing the images of your work.
MEI ZHOU 86 (23 months ago | reply)
Very nice!
Lake Crimson (21 months ago | reply)
It's almost unbelievable that these are made of folded paper. Brilliant work!
immanuelnona1998 (19 months ago | reply)
will u b making a diagram?
please let me know!!!!!!
amazing model!!!!
dcuteness (14 months ago | reply)
Hi Sir,
I am a writer from tripwiremagazine.com. I would like to add this photo to one of our articles to be published. Thank You Very Much
Kind Regards
Dustin
Phillip Curl (14 months ago | reply)
I highly doubt that unless he makes a book.
Joe Hanson's Origami Page (13 months ago | reply)
Awesome model
O m n i v o r o v s (9 months ago | reply)
Fantastic,
but,
how is this done?