Yoko Ono origamist

[campus65]

I am doing research on an Italian origamist whom Yoko Ono probably knew in the 1960s.
His name is Giuseppe Baggi. There are some photos in which Yoko Ono makes origami using his designs, and I would like to know if they really met.
Does anyone have any news about this?

my e-mail
paolocampana@alice.it

 

[ManOn M00n]

I am doing research on an Italian origamist whom Yoko Ono probably knew in the 1960s.
His name is Giuseppe Baggi. There are some photos in which Yoko Ono makes origami using his designs, and I would like to know if they really met.
Does anyone have any news about this?

my e-mail
paolocampana@alice.it

Meet our forum Yoko historian: @Madeline Bocaro , and feel free to post some photos of Yoko's origami.

Buona fortuna con il tuo lavoro.

 

[Madeline Bocaro]

Hi Paolo,

Re: Yoko and Origami

I am not sure if Giuseppe and Yoko ever met...

Here are some of Yoko’s connections with Origami…

Photos: Yoko folding in 1962, 1964. Sadako / Folding cranes with Julian / A story about an English lady folding paper for her when she was a child… / Sadako statue in Hiroshima

In her Rising album liner notes in 1995, Yoko wrote about a young girl named Sadako (a Hiroshima bombing victim) who tries to fold one thousand paper cranes according to Japanese tradition – to make a wish. The girl dies before she is able to finish. Soon thereafter Yoko recorded ‘Kurushi,’ which translates as "pained" or "suffocating." She realized, "That little girl was me.”

READ:
MY STORY about Sadako and the thousand paper cranes.

I would like to read your research paper when it is completed.

All the best,

Madeline Bocaro, author
In Your Mind - The Infinite Universe of Yoko Ono

 

[campus65]

Thank you Madeline!

 

[davidgrahammitchell]

I have a website about paperfolding history that has pages about both Giuseppe Baggi and Yoko Ono in relation to origami see https://www.origamiheaven.com/historygiuseppebaggi.htm and https://www.origamiheaven.com/historyyokoono.htm. Sorry, I don't know if they ever met but since Yoko is pictured teaching a Penguin design by Baggi (for which, as far as I know, no diagrams existed at the time) it seems likely. How else could she have learned it? Strangely, Yoko does not seem to have met Lillian Oppenheimer who was also heavily involved in promoting origami in New York at that time. Unless anyone knows differently, of course ...