This is a re-imagination of the early Origami piece by the artist/architect Philip Michael Wolfson from his ORIGAMI series, which he started in 1991. A folded steel sheet is shaped into a chair, with expertly executed statics to allow for the perfect cantilevered chair in a horizontal mode.
A visual aggression incites scrutiny of the piece itself—stimulating a participatory desire to discern the voids within and the space around; a static moment of suspended action, frozen from a manual of folds.
One of the important and early works in the Origami series, examines the abstraction of penetration, folding, layering and juxtaposition, creating a collision of static versus dynamic forces.
The works of Philip Michael Wolfson encompass investigations from an architectural foundation, across the fields of sculpture and installation, experimental design, interactivity, film and art.
