In memoriam: Eric Joisel

Trekker_1983 · Post by **Trekker_1983** » October 12th, 2010, 7:13 pm

R.I.P. Eric Joisel (1956 - 2010).
He lives on through his wonderful works that constantly amaze and inspire people.

TimelyToga · Post by **TimelyToga** » October 12th, 2010, 11:14 pm

Holy crap...RIP Mr Joisel. Your creativity will be sorely missed :'(

unpocodearte · Post by **unpocodearte** » October 12th, 2010, 11:15 pm

My respect to The Master.

anonymous person · Post by **anonymous person** » October 13th, 2010, 5:13 pm

Although Joisel is dead , his truly gargantuan contribution to origami and models which were both tecnically and artisticaslly amazing will survive long after his death.
Thankyou Mr Joisel- domo

RIP.

eric_son · Post by **eric_son** » October 15th, 2010, 12:28 pm

I feel so sad....

I can only offer my sincere condolence and gratitude.

RIP Eric.

maik.fischer · Post by **maik.fischer** » October 17th, 2010, 2:38 pm

I did never expect news like these.

Your art will live forever.
Rest in Peace Eric Joisel

FlareglooM · Post by **FlareglooM** » October 17th, 2010, 3:36 pm

Rest in Peace Eric Joisel. May your works inspire many people.

Razzmatazz · Post by **Razzmatazz** » October 18th, 2010, 6:41 pm

Although I have not folded any of Eric's work, I am greatly saddend by his death. Along with his rat and many other models, how iconic to origami they are; I wish I could make them like he does.

Every origami artist that dies leaves behind his/her great work and great techniques. But dies the artist, so dies what he never told anyone. Let us fold his models like never before.

Amen.

pandaraoke · Post by **pandaraoke** » October 19th, 2010, 2:42 am

RIP Sensei Eric Joisel. Life is not the same without him in it.

From the very moment I saw his masterpieces, I was deeply moved. He was a HUGE influence to me and brought me back to origami as an adult when I had given up with my lack of patience as a child.

If interested you may scroll down on the following link to my page in facebook to my origami album and look for the yellow rat to see my small tribute to him.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id= ... .764304159

Please take a moment to fold a rat in his honor. Diagrams can be found here:
http://www.happyfolding.com/files/Joisel-Rat.pdf (Thank you Sara Adams)

He was SO cute in "Between the Folds"! See a photo here:
http://www.greenfusefilms.com/

The butterfly designed by Michael LaFosse in his honor
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2 ... 8601602894

David Brill's interpretation and sweet contribution to his funeral:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/brill/5078938432/

Nick Robinson's beautiful tribute:
http://www.nickrobinson.info/origami/wp_ori/?p=646

The jukebox and other great stories of his adventures in his own words (with links on the left of the following page:
http://www.origamifun.info/ej/index.php?category=ej

and a book Nick put together- a nice collection and representation of his masterpieces:
http://supplies.britishorigami.info/ind ... ucts_id=31

Photos of his funeral from Joseph Wu. (One is of a lovely model Joseph Wu folded as a tribute to him)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/josephwuor ... 052838911/

And finally: Please revisit his site. May his spirit live on through the folds we create.

http://www.ericjoisel.com/about.html

If there are more links to other pages, I'd love to see them.
Our origami community mourns the loss and celebrates his life.

qtrollip · Post by **qtrollip** » October 19th, 2010, 4:35 am

Thank you Pandaraoke!

pandaraoke · Post by **pandaraoke** » October 19th, 2010, 5:19 am

Yannick GARDIN · Post by **Yannick GARDIN** » October 19th, 2010, 7:03 am

On Jamie Kelley's vimeo, several videos of Eric :
http://vimeo.com/user2895769

We will never forget you, Eric ...

akugami · Post by **akugami** » October 19th, 2010, 7:53 am

thanks to pandaraoke for these links and to master wu for sharing his pictures of the funeral with us. i was very touched by watching them. although i never met master joisel ...

pandaraoke · Post by **pandaraoke** » October 19th, 2010, 9:03 am

Yannick GARDIN wrote:On Jamie Kelley's vimeo, several videos of Eric :
http://vimeo.com/user2895769

We will never forget you, Eric ...

Thank you for sharing this link! I wish I knew French!!! I would LOVE to know what he is saying in this video:

http://vimeo.com/14704220

Anyone wish to translate? I understand this would be quite a task. It would be incredible to have his words translated in many languages. Though I feel his paper sculptures go beyond any words I can think of.

Yannick GARDIN · Post by **Yannick GARDIN** » October 19th, 2010, 11:10 am

I will not translate every word (due to my bad english), but he talked about his beginnings in folding.
He says that he had difficult relations with his father, after declaring at 20 years old "I'm gonna be an artist !". Then he started to learn scuplture, from books.
Self-made man is probably his favourite model, because he's also a self-made man in folding !
At the age of 27, he decided to come to origami; He stopped everything, and for 5 years, he learned all what he could from only 4-5 Yoshizawa books. He didn't know there was associations, or other books than japanese books, so he worked alone in his corner.
For example, studying the photos, he thought "maybe Yoshizawa wets his paper", and so he tried, putting a 400g sheet of paper a whole night in water. You imagine the result the next morning !
To conclude, he talked about the luck we have today : we have conventions, with famous folders that come and give their experience and teach techniques.

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In memoriam: Eric Joisel

RIP Great One