Beverly Ress, “Lift” (2013), colored pencil on paper, cut, shifted, reattached, 31 x 24 in. (all photos by Greg Staley, courtesy the American University Museum unless otherwise noted) Beverly Ress, ...

The big thinkers at Aperture explore origami and the mathematical art of paper folding. Woman checks Bernese mountain dog's fur, sees something moving with a tail ...

Place your paper down and decide which way you are going to fold it You can fold it up the way, down the way or from one side to the other. Choose what feels easiest and will give you the hole size ...

Origami is the ancient Japanese art of paper folding. One uncut square of paper can, in the hands of an origami artist, be folded into a bird, a frog, a sailboat, or a Japanese samurai helmet beetle.