Creating Paper Art with Miss Cloudy

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Are you one of those people who have fantasized about changing the course of your life? Of taking control and spending each day doing the one thing that you love the most? If so, then this is the episode for you. Pauline Loctin was a computer programmer in Montreal building and maintaining websites for musicians when she decided to learn the art of paper folding. And now, as Miss Cloudy, Pauline’s work can be found in art galleries and as installations in hotels and shopping malls.

When I say folded paper, you probably think origami. But Pauline’s art is much different from the folded paper animals we might normally associate with origami. So, naturally I started by asking “what’s the difference?

Pauline Loctin: First, I will say that there is no difference because what I do is origami but people think that origami is something that is very precise like animals.  Most of the time when I say I do origami, people don’t understand that it can be that but origami is a very large artform and there are a lot of different kinds of origami. It’s not just the animals.  You can do so much different stuff with folding paper.  It’s a large practice in Japan.  What I do is tessellation.  You learn how to repeat a pattern.  So the pattern is folding paper.  So it’s a technique of repetition out of paper.

Steve Waxman:  How did you learn this?

Pauline Loctin: I read and book and then after that, I just practiced.  So, I really taught myself how to do it. It was a lot of trying and failing and trying and failing.  So, it was all about that.

Steve Waxman: When did this start?

Pauline Loctin: It’s going to be 6 years next week. It all began six years ago just because I was tired of my job. I was a freelance web strategist. I was on my computer all day and I was just tired of it. So, because I’m a really creative person, I was just creating stuff at home and at some point it begins to grow. People just started to ask me to do stuff for them. At first it was only friends and after that, it was bigger and bigger.

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If you’d like to find out more about Pauline and her artwork, please head over to www.misscloudy.com.