This past Friday the paper for my project came in. I don’t know how it happened, but I seemed to have ordered the wrong size. The paper is much smaller than I originally intended. I could have returned the paper in exchange for a larger size but I wanted to get started on the folding this weekend. I also could have ordered more paper to make up for the small size of the overall project, but then I would have to order more lights. I decided, for now, that I will keep the 600 origami pieces of paper with the 600 lights.

This presents a new challenge, however. There will now be a much larger gap between each ball that will have to be addressed. Conversely, I can keep the balls separated from one another and that will help to make the piece large as I originally intended. The issue with that, though, is that then there will not be a cohesive look to the lights. I am hoping that because I am using an abstract design, the spacing between the balls will not matter.

My next issue is that the LEDs are incredibly bright and the colors shine right through the blue paper. In other words, the red lights still look red and not purple when they are put them through the paper. So I may just use the white lights and keep the blue gradient as the main design. I’ve folded 275 papers so far and a hoping to make a final decision within the coming week.