100 Steps

I went to the "100 Steps" exhibition, dedicated to the centenary of the Sogetsu ikebana school. I came right before closing. When I saw in the announcement a cube of origami butterflies by the "Yu" group, I decided to bring my own butterfly, a design by Satoshi Kamiya.

In person, the cube turned out to be much bigger than in the photos. Inside there are butterflies with all kinds of patterns, and yet they all go well together.

While I was looking at the other exhibits, the curator Olga Lapshina came up to me and told me a bit about the works and about the Sogetsu school. It was a revelation for me that a cube of origami butterflies is ikebana too.

We got talking, I told her that I had come specially for the butterflies, and showed her mine. In the end I was asked to say a few words about origami on camera, which was nice.

Besides the butterflies, the exhibition had a lot of other great work. My butterfly happened to match the color of the asparagus in Elena Rogacheva's ikebana.