Fireworks origami structure invented by Yami Yamauchi in a round box
23 x 23 x 18 cm for box and 21 x 21 x 11 cm for book
original Castro rainbow flag, hanji, Cave and Arches paper, beeswax, wood, acrylic paint
Heavy and light, playful and serious, colorful yet subtle, this moving structure, born of the San Francisco rainbow flag, was inspired by Virginia Woolf's poetic description of gender fluidity as a "vacillation from one sex to the other" that exists in every human being.