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Michael LaFosse: Interpretations in Origami - Animals of the Sonoran Desert
Friends of Dard Hunter's Bull & Branch, 1998
by Catherine Nash


Life-sized origami mask of a mountain lion was folded from a single, 18-inch square of agave and cotton fiber paper, hand made by Michael LaFosse.In the collection of John Robertson.
Photo by Michael Lafferty
A friendly phone call in February of 1997, piqued my interest and sense of adventure.

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    • Master origami artist Michael LaFosse was just beginning a stint as “artist-in-residence” at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum in Tucson. Education staff connected us because of our mutual interests: I had taught Japanese and Western papermaking from plant fibers at the museum on several occasions.

    Michael’s unique proposal, to study the Sonoran Desert plants and animals, and then design origami renditions of them in his own handmade paper, was intriguing to me. A quick drive over the Tucson Mountains and I was soon listening to his wonderfu