Juho Könkkölä, a Finnish origami artist, has been folding intricate paper sculptures for over 15 years.
Using only a single square sheet of paper, he creates expressive human figures like samurai warriors, knights, and swordsmen, drawing inspiration from history, mythology, and real life.Könkkölä’s meticulous creative process involves months of planning and folding thousands of precise creases, with his most complex piece “Duelling Knights” requiring 5,377 folds over 2.5 years.One of his samurai sculptures, measuring 28cm tall, was folded from a 95cm square sheet of Wenzhou rice paper in 3 months using dry and wet folding techniques.The precreased sheet itself is a work of art, with hundreds of folds in a pattern as fine as 1/480th of the paper.
Despite the incredible complexity, Könkkölä’s goal is to push the boundaries of what can be expressed through the single-sheet origami medium. Japan Inside
