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2016-09-18 09:14China Daily Editor: Feng Shuang ECNS App Download
Qin Kun devotes himself to origami and produces some amazing work. None of his works can be copied, each piece has its own unique character.(Photo by Liu Jiaoqing/China Daily)

Qin Kun devotes himself to origami and produces some amazing work. None of his works can be copied, each piece has its own unique character.(Photo by Liu Jiaoqing/China Daily)

Qin, 31, has an incredible ability, and a driving passion, to bring a piece of paper to life by working and folding it into works of art. 

Qin Kun is hungry but he refrains from using his hand to pick a morsel of sushi. He does use his hands, however, for judging and feeling the paper that he shapes into intricate representations of animals and insects.

No scissors, no glue, no cutting, Qin works day and night in this pursuit.

Qin, 31, has an incredible ability, and a driving passion, to bring a piece of paper to life by working and folding it into works of art.

"I keep folding without knowing where I am heading for," Qin said "but then an idea grabs me until it blows my mind."

For years, he toiled on origami pieces alone in his studio in Guilin until one of his works, a paper mantis, was recently sold to a Spanish collector for 210,000 yuan ($31,400).

  

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