Hasta La Ideas

Mui-Ling Teh takes the art of Origami to a miniature size with pieces so small they are barely visible to the naked eye. She laboriously creates the tiny pieces using paper, scissors and tweezers. The smallest of these tiny models is just 2mm which can be seen in the below image.

Mui-Ling says: “This skill definitely requires a lot of patience; some models require much more patience than others; especially when folding a different design for the first time,” she said. “Generally I am a patient person and I have to be in a calm state in order to do one of these models; or sometimes I fold something to calm me down.

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This hyper-detailed construction “Castle on the Ocean” took four years to build and was made entirely out of craft paper with a few dabs of glue. What sparked this endeavor by artist Wataru Ito was his boredom during his university entrance exams. Hmmm. We’ll let that one go.

The finished piece is currently on display at an exhibition on the island of Umihotaru, near Tokyo. Surprisingly he plans to torch his creation when the show is over.

The artist says: “I am devoted while I am working on my projects but I quickly lose interest when I complete them. “When the exhibition is over I will burn the castle. I thought I could see it rising up from the ashes if I took a video and played it backwards.”

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