Folded in Flight
Digital Art
In the collective cross campus digital art piece, I designed the rainbow paper crane cascade to the right. I particularly chose the form of origami to capture for its symbolism for potentiality. Paper starts as something blank, uncreased, just waiting for someone to make a mark or to be folded.
The paper crane is one of the first things anyone interested in origami
learns, demonstrating that we're just at the beginning of our journey in young adulthood. Some pieces of paper in the mass lay unfolded, creased, or crumpled—still on their journey to find out what they want to become, finding guidance in the pack—representing how re-representation is an active process and inherently communal.
We have plenty of opportunities to turn ourselves into anything leaving this institution, which has only started to prepare us for our flight throughout life. It's important to remember our current identity does not define us forever and it's never too late to change or explore. Even so, we can still carry the memory of our past identities in our faded folds and marks.