paper cutting stained glass

Sam is currently working on a paper church. One of the defining features of a church is its stained glass. Using a coloured, wax-like paper, Sam designed and cut out stained miniature windows. Check them out below. A picture of the church will be uploaded once it has been completed.

Detailing Origami Houses

For the project I'm doing on hitRECord, I have been asked to do some detailing on the 3D houses I've been making. I draw the bricks on the roofs with sharpie and draw the windows on card stock and then cut them out with a pen knife.

I really love creating miniature figures and working with fine detail.

For the first & second houses, I used green wrapped wires and hand cut mini leaves out of green textured paper.

For the second house, I spent 4 1/2 hours cutting tiny leaves and then pasted them one by one in a layering fashion.

I am very happy with how all three turned out ^____^ Feel free to let me know what you think :D

Little Origami Village

Hello Readers,

Recently Sam has been working on a several origami pieces to create a little village for hitRECord. The art pieces range from houses to chairs. Here are some of the pieces she has done so far.

 Feel free to leave a comment below to tell us what you think :)

NEW MAGAZINE FEATURE

Made by a SAM-urai's creator, Sam, has a new magazine feature. Kami Magazine has written a wonderful piece featuring her origami work. The piece highlights Sam's achievements of 10,000 collective hits on her art pieces on the website hitRECord.

The print and online versions present different pictures. If you get a chance check it out by clicking the link: KAMI MAGAZINE FEATURE

FINALLY ON INSTAGRAM

Hello Origami Lovers,

Made by a SAM-urai finally has an Instagram account~! *claps*

The user is @samurai_origami. A lot of the pictures uploaded are from recent art pieces. Here is the link to the account http://instagram.com/samurai_origami/.

Please take a look and tell us what you think! As a bonus, here are some pictures from the account...hope you like them :)

- Chris, made by a SAM-urai Admin 

Featured by Bystander Magazine

Bystander Magazine, an indie arts magazine in the US, has published my first magazine feature! Check it out here: http://www.bystandermag.com/2014/12/getting-to-knowsam-dizon-origami-and.html

Networking Origami Installation at the Eats & Beats Street Festival in Riverside

On June 7th, I participated in the Eats & Beats in Riverside Street Festival. The wonderful Riverside BIA approved my idea to make an origami installation. I had thought it would entail me decorating a few poles or trees, but they surprised me by giving me the Target Park fence on Queen/Saulter to decorate.

325 butterflies, 5 hours of folding and 6.5 hours installing nets and origami butterflies and the Networking installation was born. I was given great feedback and enjoyed the process of doing my first official installation!

Thanks to the Riverside BIA for such a wonderful opportunity!

Title: Networking
by Samantha Dizon

This installation portrays various butterflies connected through several nets. Interpretation of the work is left up to the audience.

Having created origami in shadow boxes for several years, Sam felt it was time to bring origami outside to an audience that wouldn't expect to see it on their way to work or while out on a stroll. In doing so, she hopes to convince those who see the butterflies that origami can indeed be art and not just a hobby craft.

Sam Dizon has been folding origami since the age of eight. She teaches origami classes and does commissions. Some of her work has recently been used on HITRECORD on TV season 1 and her origami love (album) has inspired a collaboration on hitrecord.org.