Chuck and I saw this piece at an Exhibition at the Weatherspoon at UNC-G in February. It’s an interactive piece that offers the viewer to participate by removing a page. We each took a piece. He folded his to carry it out to the car. I did not. I wasn’t sure what I would do with it and taped it over a a framed poster in my bedroom.

My friend, Caitlyn, has had the habit of folding paper cranes for as long as I’ve known her (around 18 years). Anytime she is somewhere that there are bits of paper lying around, she folds cranes. She said it started when she read that if you fold 1,000 cranes, a wish will come true. She figures she should have gotten more than one by now. But, she lost count ages ago.

(Last night, we went out for dinner and she was making tiny ones with the chopstick wrappers on the table without even looking at her hands.)

A couple of months ago, I asked her if she would take my sheet and fold me a crane. I had to cut the edges down before I delivered it, because it needed to be square instead of rectangular.

She learned something by using this bicolored sheet that wasn’t obvious otherwise. Theres a point in the folding where you have 4 triangles that become the actual bird. No matter which way she folded it, there were always 3 and one. It was always going to be colored diagonally. Never tail/head and the wings. Always each wing a different color. She could only choose which color she wanted to be the head and which the tail,