The Seaside Fleet: Information (OPAF) September 2021.
In early September, I took The Seaside Fleet to a new venue, Angels Gate Park/Cultural Center in San Pedro CA.
This event was different from previous installations. Do to limitations placed on the event by Angel’s Gate Cultural Center I was not able to leave my hand-folded paper boats in their usual manner. Excited to use my creativity and stretch the boundaries of the project, I struck upon the idea of reimagining how I present it as an information booth!
I’m not a stranger to meeting the hand-folded paper boat curious public. In the early 2000s, when the Dreamboat Research Project was still active, I helped at conferences where the team presented their data analysis, by presenting my art and conducting polling interviews with volunteers.
A sample of materials I presented at the OPAF 2021
Under a small tent with a couple of tables, repurposed from other art fairs I’ve been to with my collages, I displayed a variety of materials including:
Photos and maps documenting other Seaside Fleet installations - as well as other Paper Boat Sightings I was not involved with.
“Ephemera packs” and a display of paper boats from my previous events.
Unique paper boats made special for OPAF.
Booklets and posters with my paper boat folding instructions.
The catalog of my paper boat works that KolajFest published in 2018.
Free examples of hand-folded paper boats.
A demonstration table where I taught visitors how to fold their own paper boats.
An updated version of the DRP classic info gathering poll.
