Impassioned Fruit No. 5: daisy sonobe dodecahedron. This is a 90-piece modular origami that I've been putting off for a long time. The papers came from used notebooks.
I'm really proud of this one. I'd been into sonobe for a while and decided it was time to graduate to forms that required > 30 or so units. It took me a while to fold 90, and then I found it hard to figure out how to put them together. When I finally did, I realized I had one piece missing, so I had to hunt all over my room for the last unit. Even then, the pieces lay forgotten on one of Martin's shelves (I'd decided to assemble it in his house since there's no more room in my own place, and he lets me keep stuff like this at his) until this interview.
I interviewed Philo Chua of Theo + Philo Artisan Chocolates sometime in January for an article that still hasn't been published. Mr. Chua didn't actually use the P word or anything like it during the interview--apart from explaining that the company name meant "love and chocolate"--but I liked his story so much that I felt I had to do a project afterward. You can't do something like Mr. Chua did without having a little passion, after all.
I guess this is also a small way to promote his terrific chocolates until the article finally gets published--I hope this will be early in March. In the meantime, try to buy from Theo + Philo. The green mango chocolate is my favorite.
