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Wednesday, 31 October 2012 - 02:00 PM IST
ST CORRESPONDENT
PUNE:
Teja Bandal has become the first Indian to win the excellence award in International Origami Competition
organised by British Origami Society.
Out of the participants from 123 countries across the globe, Teja emerged as the winner for her innovative
work in origami tessellation and interior design and architecture.
The competition, which lasted for three days, was conducted online wherein Teja made a 4-feet tall deer
out of a 20 by 20 feet sheet of paper by giving it 3,500 folds. "It took around four hours to complete the
shape of a deer," Teja said on Tuesday.
Hailing from Kolhapur, Teja has just not mastered this Japanese art but has developed various new models
in it on her own. Despite not taking any formal coaching in origami, she has managed to learn advanced
techniques and used her creativity to contribute towards enriching the art.
Teja, a student of classical music, has experimented with various forms of origami such as product design
origami, ship origami, quoto origami and many more. Origami is a unique form of art that originated in
China, which does not require gumming and cutting the paper.
Teja said that she was looking forward to popularising the art of origami in various other fields like
interior design and architecture without altering basic science of origami. "Origami is not just limited to
making models of animal and birds out of paper but it covers every aspect of human life," Teja said.
Besides learning new trends in origami and experimenting with them, Teja has also been spreading this art
form among school children in Kolhapur. "Origami develops our logical reasoning ability which helps in
understanding geometrical shapes and structures that the children often find difficult," Teja said.