In 2017, Englishman Joe Winstanley was struggling. He’d dropped out of college and moved home to his beloved Peak District, unsure of his future. He tried starting a clothing company, but that failed. It was not a particularly happy time, yet what came next was a surprise that provided joy, creativity, and a career path: Winstanley’s idea to ship clothing in packages that could be folded into the shape of well-known Peak District hills revealed itself to be an art: the art of mountain origami.
“Creating these paper hills was so good for my mental health and I soon realized there was something very special in the whole process,” Winstanley told Ernest magazine. “I’ve been doing this ever since—growing my art and my mental well-being.”
Winstanley inscribes a mathematical grid on a flat sheet of paper, then folds the paper to make three-dimensional sculptures, with identifiable nooks, crannies, and bumps of a hill like Mam Tor represented. Since those first, relatively simple
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