Paul Klenk is an origami artist based in Astoria, Queens. He began folding origami boxes in Minneapolis around 1995, filling them with his mother's and grandmother's fabulous gingerbread (recipe available on request). Acquiring new and beautiful papers quickly became an obsession. He recently learned that his original paper supplier in Saint Paul, Minnesota still has the origami box he presented to them 15 years ago, in brown and blue Florentine prints (c. 1901) on Italian paper. Paul is also a singer and pianist, is fond of anagrams ("An excellent anagram ~ can relax a gentleman"), and is an Executive Assistant by profession.
Paul selects from the world's most beautiful decorative papers, in an unending variety of patterns, colors, fibers, dyes, and textures. He then cuts, folds, assembles and sculpts them into collections that coordinate easily to spectacular effect. This is a hallmark of Oriboxi art.
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