Day 98

'Paper Crane', Pen on Paper

Some familiar themes reoccurring again today those being in regards to an illustration/t-shirt design that plays on the notion of homonyms and how certain sayings and associations can change by reassigning a slightly different meaning. The thought behind today came whilst at work and during a particularly slow few hours I decided to learn some origami in this case how to make an origami crane. Whilst doing this I was also thinking about cranes in terms of the mechanised giants that are used in the construction trade as it has always perplexed me as to how really large cranes are built. It's normally a case that they just seem to appear very quickly but where do the come from and how are the constructed? I thought then that this play on the dual meanings of the word crane would lend itself well to this rough concept. If I was to spend a little more time at this I would probably toy about with the use of sepia ink and possibly a more mathematical drawing of the building under construction. There was something else I found out about Origami Cranes also that I found to be quite interesting, that being that there is a legend that says if you make 1000 origami cranes you will be granted a wish... so I guess it's time to start folding.