The Miniature Origami of Mui-Ling Teh

Using only paper, scissors and tweezers, 23-year-old Mui-Ling Teh creates origami art that can only be appreciated when looked-at through a magnifying-glass.

The young architecture student started experimenting with the art of origami, when she was just nine years old. She would fold sweet wrappers into various shapes like birds, flowers of airplanes, and she practiced until they got smaller and smaller.

Now Mui-Ling Teh is able to create paper works-of-art that are only visible in magnified photographs. Her smallest work is just 2 mm long. Depending on how much experience she has with folding a specific model, Mui-Ling takes between 20 minutes and an hour to complete an origami piece.

The young Canadian dreams of turning her passion into a profession, but because her artworks are so tiny, there’s no way they can be exhibited in art galleries. For now, she has an online photo-gallery set up and she sells calendars of her petite origami, at herZazzle store.

Photos by Mui-Ling Teh/CATERS

via Telegraph.co.uk

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