ABSTRACT
A display of 88 paper elephants illustrates both the remarkable attraction origami has for some people-after all, how many people would take the time to fold 88 versions of the same thing?—and the remarkable versatility of the art. Georgeot’s collection of elephants represented only the tiniest fraction of the modern origami repertoire. Tens of thousands of paper designs exist for animals, plants, and objects, a regular abecedarium of subject matter. There are antelopes, birds, cars, dogs, elephants (of course), flowers and gorillas; horses, ibexes, jays, and kangaroos; lions, monkeys, nautiluses, octopi, parrots, quetzalcoatls, roses, sharks, trains, ukuleles, violinists, whelks, xylophones, yaks, and zebras, the last complete with stripes.
