plants and paper
Thursday, June 19th, 2025 19:55![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Plants creep me out, but just like, conceptually. You've got this thing just sitting there, (seemingly) not doing much of anything, in some dirt in a pot or in the ground, with some water and sunlight, all pretty normal stuff. So you leave it there and two weeks later there's... more of it. Where did it come from? Why is it bigger? It didn't have that many leaves when I first got it. Pretty weird if you ask me.
II.
I was really into origami as a kid. I had this book that had a variety of different figures at various difficulty levels, and the instructions were all really clear and with good, illustrative photos. Later on in life I tried to look up the book and the author based on the scant information I could recall... His first name was Roy, or something similar, I think? And one of his other books that I definitely owned more recently was like a subset of the original book I had from him, that was called "Action Origami", with more playful and motion-oriented projects. Well, based on just that, I did find the guy. His name was Rick Beech and he came down with psychosis, antagonized and isolated everyone around him, and finally, killed himself in 2012. That was all kind of shocking for me to learn. I guess I was expecting something like, continued doing origami work and lived a peaceful normal life.
Plants creep me out, but just like, conceptually. You've got this thing just sitting there, (seemingly) not doing much of anything, in some dirt in a pot or in the ground, with some water and sunlight, all pretty normal stuff. So you leave it there and two weeks later there's... more of it. Where did it come from? Why is it bigger? It didn't have that many leaves when I first got it. Pretty weird if you ask me.
II.
I was really into origami as a kid. I had this book that had a variety of different figures at various difficulty levels, and the instructions were all really clear and with good, illustrative photos. Later on in life I tried to look up the book and the author based on the scant information I could recall... His first name was Roy, or something similar, I think? And one of his other books that I definitely owned more recently was like a subset of the original book I had from him, that was called "Action Origami", with more playful and motion-oriented projects. Well, based on just that, I did find the guy. His name was Rick Beech and he came down with psychosis, antagonized and isolated everyone around him, and finally, killed himself in 2012. That was all kind of shocking for me to learn. I guess I was expecting something like, continued doing origami work and lived a peaceful normal life.
