On This past Thanksgiving my wife and I visited our daughter who works in Kansas City. She took us on November 23rd. to see the World War I memorial in Kansas City. Guarding the memorial are two carved sphinx. One sphinx statue represents the past and the other the future. Both statues have wings that completely hide their faces. The statue of the past is said to be shielding it’s eyes from the atrcites of war while the other represents the idea that the future is veiled. In Greece, the Sphinx became a she-monster, with the head and breasts of a woman, and the body of a lion. Sphinxes are cherubim, guardian angels who protect the living and the dead. Other cultures represent the sphynx with other combinations of animals. “The sphinx encourages all to remember the past while looking toward the future.”
I immediately new that I needed to use this inpiraton for an origami model. So I began planning my model. Unfortunately, I had a little set-back when I suffered a tear of the cornea. This gave me an even greater appreciation of what shielding your eyes meant.
I call the latest creation “Trepidation - Great agitation and anxiety caused by the expectation or the realization of danger”
Part of my therapy after the eye-surgery was to remain in a 45 degree angle, so the instructions for folding this model go something like this –
1. Close one eye
2. Prepare a folding surface that is close to the open eye
3. Tilt your head 45 degrees and do not move for one week.
4. Fold with great inspiration -------
FOLDED WITH ONE UNCUT SQUARE OF FOIL WRAPPING PAPER
