Photography by CHRISTOFFER JOERGENSEN
it’s pretty cool how this design came together. it started off in Alicante at the spanish origami convention in may where Javi (i think he’s 12) taught me Michael G. LaFosse’s F-14 paper plane. in june when we had a late night folding session at the german convention in Berlin i was teaching the model. when Robert J. Lang decided to join the group we had already completed the frog-base. as he was catching up he modified the tail with a lock which i then incorporated in to my design. finally in july at the OUSA in New York, Bernie Payton took my swallow class and explained to me that the beak needed to be wider, so i took his advice and made the beak wider. i guess this is a perfect example of how sometimes several sources of inspiration come together in one design… and it’s not always origami luminaries that involved.
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1 gauthier // Sep 19, 2009 at 09:14
you’re really a great artist!
congratulation sipho !
2 Themba // Sep 19, 2009 at 10:03
Great Composition!!!
I especially like the depth, sense of flight/motion and the plasticity of the swallow which is evident even from above…. any more pix?
Keep the great work up!
Cheerios, t
3 Daniel Bisten // Sep 19, 2009 at 22:49
Hallo,
Kann mich errinnern, dass Sie im Zug von Luzern nach Hüswil an der Schwalbe gearbeitet haben. Sie haben uns dann dieses Model gezeigt.
Heute(19.9.2009)haben sich in Hüswil ca. 500 Schwalben getroffen um in den Süden zu ziehen. Etwas später habe ich dann die Schwalben auf FB gesehen, was für ein schöner Zufall.
Grüsse aus dem Hinterland
Daniel Bisten
4 siphomabona // Sep 20, 2009 at 08:42
Hallo, jetzt da sie’s sagen, kann ich mich erinnern. sie haben recht, da begann ich mit dem prozess. damals konnte man wohl kaum erkennen, dass es sich um eine schwalbe handelte. danke für den hinweis!
5 Bruno // Sep 22, 2009 at 12:32
Das ist endlich mal eine tolle Schwalbe.
Gratuliere
Wann und wo wird sie publiziert?
Grüße
6 siphomabona // Sep 23, 2009 at 00:31
well i’m not sure about publishing this design. if i do so, it might be a stop motion animation.
7 siphomabona // Sep 23, 2009 at 00:32
thanks Gauthier!
8 jana // Sep 25, 2009 at 08:04
absolutely magic this bird just got it….looking forward for the bunch……:-)
9 Nancy // Oct 1, 2009 at 12:33
I would like instructions on how to make a swallow. As a first time oragami student, film direction, as with the koi, would be of great assistance. If you do not supply instructions, do you sell finished project? These are wonderful, imaginative pieces of artwork. Thank you for sharing them with us.
10 Pocko // Oct 1, 2009 at 17:15
It feels like a still from Alfred Hitchcocks “The Birds”, quite amazing. Your work is incredible.
11 siphomabona // Oct 2, 2009 at 07:23
thanks! there are no instructions but we do sell the finished projects for infos on pricing please contact info@mabonaorigami.com.
actually i’ve consdered making a stopmotion animation for this model. but it will still take some time before i get to actually do it.
12 Wizmatt // Jan 1, 2010 at 17:54
This is wonderfully elegant but simple design. Thanks for sharing the design process with us, I’m curious to know what paper you folded them from?
13 kyaw san win // Mar 29, 2010 at 12:27
Mabona I pay respect you. I wanted to fold many things but I have no foundation of origami. Please teach me the basics.
Thanks
14 Sipho Mabona // Apr 5, 2010 at 16:47
sorry, i guess i won’t really be able to do so but i also only learnt from books, internet and dvd’s!
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