The Idea
Lost Origami is a project which intends to see how much we are
ready to stop and look around us in this fast-paced life we live...
I started making paper cranes almost a year ago. Early one Sunday morning I was at an interview with a musician - one of the best trumpet players in Bulgaria. While we were talking, he was playing with a sheet of paper, which he took from the table of the hotel. It was actually a brochure for a music festival. We kept on talking and it wasn't only questions and answers - it was a conversation. At some point he stopped talking and gave me the paper crane. "If you make a wish and make 1000 of those, your wish will come true", he said. Of course I asked, "How many have you made?" "Only around 300. But I am not constant. Can you imagine how many interviews I would have to give before it becomes 1000?"he said and smiled. It was a sunny day and I had slept only 4 hours but I felt good.
I started making paper cranes almost a year ago. Early one Sunday morning I was at an interview with a musician - one of the best trumpet players in Bulgaria. While we were talking, he was playing with a sheet of paper, which he took from the table of the hotel. It was actually a brochure for a music festival. We kept on talking and it wasn't only questions and answers - it was a conversation. At some point he stopped talking and gave me the paper crane. "If you make a wish and make 1000 of those, your wish will come true", he said. Of course I asked, "How many have you made?" "Only around 300. But I am not constant. Can you imagine how many interviews I would have to give before it becomes 1000?"he said and smiled. It was a sunny day and I had slept only 4 hours but I felt good.
I started making them everywhere I went. At work, home, sitting
on some bench in some park, waiting for friends, at cafes. I just loved how
they calmed me down, made me concentrate and most of all – taught me to pay
attention to the details and crave perfection.
Then I started leaving them everywhere, because they were
getting too much for my office and house. Then I stopped making them.
One day I just felt like making paper cranes again. So I did. I
was watching the sunset near the Danube and this strange desire came to me, and
I am very hedonistic about my desires and chocolate. So I followed my desire and
made a couple of cranes. After finishing, I left them. When I got back home I
started missing the little paper cranes. Maybe I shouldn't have left them?
Then, like coincidence, the idea was born. Where could they fly?
Would they find a home? How many of them would survive? Are there enough people
who will take care of my cranes?
So many questions, the answers to which I yearn to find...
I tend to communicate with a lot of travellers. I just can't
help it. So I give each one of them paper cranes, which will travel with them
to some point, which the traveller chooses. There they will be left for someone
to find, with the link of this blog, of course.
Every paper crane is special and has its own story and name. If
you find it you can share where you have discovered it and read its story. You
can mention when and where you found it. You can keep it or enrich its story
and leave it for someone else to discover.
If you have a desire to spread more cranes you can always send an e-mail with your origami photo and story and it will be published here.
If you have a desire to spread more cranes you can always send an e-mail with your origami photo and story and it will be published here.
Some of the "spreaders" are making the origami
themselves so you can be one of them too. The idea is to see how many of them
will find a home and how many people are willing to join the idea and spread
origami throughout the world.
And one little update - due to the lack of internet time/access for the spreaders (and my lack of free time), the posts may be uploaded with a one day delay.
And one little update - due to the lack of internet time/access for the spreaders (and my lack of free time), the posts may be uploaded with a one day delay.
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