As the world settles into the realities of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, Taro Yaguchi has continued to look for unique ways to spread the joy of origami to people all over New York City.  Last week he continued those efforts by creating an over-sized origami display in the heart of downtown Brooklyn.

Taro showed up with all of the origami display hardware that we’ve used for events for years.  The great thing about this large-scale origami event setup is that it’s been through many rounds of testing and events so at this point it’s a pretty easy thing to setup and move to various places.  As you can see below Brooklyn is maybe the only place in the world where you can find a origami master and football balancing bike rider hanging out in the same place.

Many other intrigued passersby enjoyed parts of the display performance and took turn guessing as to what the final display would be.

Taro has spent the last 5-7 years perfecting the ability to fold these models in this way.  Not only are the models feet in length (instead of inches) but he also has found a way to display the models upright so that everyone can see the entire folding process instead of folding them on a flat surface, which would be easier to do, but harder for large groups to witness.

In the end the model slowly morphed into one of the easily recognizable symbols of origami, the traditional crane.  Taro then finished off the entire event with a display of smaller cranes as well as a reminder for why he continues his work in the field-

The “Love of Origami”

If you’d like to have a customized over-sized origami experience, feel free to contact us at parkslope@tarosorigami.com, or follow us on social media to find out the next time we’re out and about!