The podium for the Oriland Kingdom was 3x2 meters (composed of 4 tables draped with cloth) and was set up in the wide open area of the library with good natural lighting from huge windows. Jean Lee, head of St. James Town Branch, was very cooperative during the installation - for that we sincerely thank her.
From Exhibition Guestbook: “Fabulous work done! If it can be shown to schools will be great too!! I'm just amazed how you did it so beautifully.”

The main prominent sight of the show was the Sun Castle, the tall paper fairy-tale wonder (40 inches or 1 meter high), constructed from 350 pieces of paper, without using glue or cutting, and needless to say, nor was everything else presented on this origami display.
From Exhibition Guestbook: “Thank you so much for sharing your magical paper works with us. It is so full of life and cheerful, happy energy!”

Another conspicuous sight was the tall Sailing Ship ‘Moonlight’, 32 inches (80 cm) long and about the same high, which is folded from 350 sheets of selected papers to complement the whole boat design. The Ship is even manned with the crew of little origami people!
From Exhibition Guestbook: “Thanks so much for the wonderful show! You are both amazingly talented! Looking forward to seeing more of your work in the future. - Knot”

The Origami land from Oriland Sea to the Castle area was settled with magicians and goblins, where they had the magic bazaar, featuring magical objects, carpers, mirrors, shoes etc. Also next to the Sea port there were magician’s whimsical houses.
From Exhibition Guestbook: “We are truly amazed and impressed with the wonderful work displayed here today. It is hard to believe that no gluing or cutting took place. This is a true art form. We are in awe! - Bev+Alun Morgan ”

Oriland Sea: Bird's eye view.
Oriland Sea, filled with schools of fish is a fine arena for the majestic ‘Moonlight’ Sailing Ship, as well as for the smaller vessel, called ‘Brave’!
From Exhibition Guestbook: “It's very amazing to see that something like this can be made from paper without cutting or gluing! -Michael.H. ”

Oriland Museum: Bird's eye view.
Yes, yes in Oriland there is even the museum, where a huge (for origami little people of course) Skeleton of Stegosaur was on display these days.
From Exhibition Guestbook: “It is so nice to watch and thanks a lot. I think it is so good to teach to new generation.”

Origami little people are about 3-inch (7.5-cm) high. Each paper person is folded from about 10 to 20 sheets of selected papers from napkin-like paper to foil-paper (often for shoes).

The Oriland Museum area is filled not only with paper restorers, working on the Dinosaur display, but also many Orilanders, spending fun time at this attraction.

Close-up view of the museum building, which is nicely decorated with floral lanterns and has Asian-styled roofs. If you look inside, you’ll see tiny furniture… chairs and a table, in this case.
From Exhibition Guestbook: “I'm glad to see such a wonderful ORIGAMI in Toronto. - Saki Haruna (JAPAN).”

Between the Oriland Museum area and the Castle there are lovely flower gardens and of course, the Oriland Café! Orilanders love to come there and rest. Some spectators of the Oriland exhibition asked why there are no food or drinks on tables… Well, the exhibition was situated inside the library, where no food is allowed, sorry :)

In the foreground, there are Oriland Scouts; they are on duty near the watch tower. The Floral Alley, leading to the Magic Bazaar area is always filled with origami little people. But let’s return to the kittens, you can find the third little kitten, who’s walking on the roof of the magician house.
From Exhibition Guestbook: “Simply magical. Such a display of creative genius. Congratulation!”

The Oriland inhabitants are enjoying the conversation in the Garden. The little clown most probably told some jokes, as we can hear how they’re all laughing :)

From Exhibition Guestbook: “Such a great work!!! I'm so happy to see such creative people in your library. - Anahit”

The Orilanders are gathering near the flower garden to discuss some news from the Oriland world and to listen to the magic stories from the expert.
From Exhibition Guestbook: “This is the coolest thing I've ever seen! ”

Goblins are visiting the Magic Bazaar. Among the numerous goods, the Goblin-lady seems to be interested in Magic Mirrors, while her boyfriend is carrying a Magic Carpet on his shoulder and it seems thinking of new shoes :) Each goblin is 6 inches (15 cm) high and made of 17 pieces of paper.

We also were happy to meet some of our Oriland.com fans at the exhibition, the new and old ones. Some of them followed Oriland from childhood and now came to the show as University students already. And some are new, who just discovered Oriland for themselves.

From Exhibition Guestbook: “I love the exhibition and the best I have seen in my whole life. - Celine ”

The Magic Bazaar is a popular place, where you can find magic carpets for all tastes, vessels, and magic mirrors, books of magic tales and treasure chests, magic slippers and much more.

From Exhibition Guestbook: “You did an amazing job building the Kingdoms. This is the best origami that's done in the whole entire world. You should be really really proud of yourself. If I had a chance like this I would be very glad too!! You guys are the most creative people in the world, by not using any glue or by not doing a single cutting. I really appreciate this. Each work object in the exhibition is very detailed and you chose very right colors. It is very colorful. And also you invented paper connectors to connect every bends and colors. I'm very amazed about the techniques you used to build beautiful, attractive scene. I feel very proud to be in Canada because of you guys. You are great and creative!! Wish you a lot of sucess in the future! Really cool!! Hope you make more..... - your fan - Apsara ”

The Beach Area with Palms and cheerful umbrellas is a lovely place to spend a sunny day. Orilanders love it! Here on the beach, there is also the Watch Tower; the scouts of Oriland need to see far and around!
From Exhibition Guestbook: “It's amazingly beautiful. You're really great. And I wish I have a talent like you.”

The‘Moonlight’ Sailing Ship as seen from the Watch Tower. So, set sail! Get ready for your own paper sea adventure!

From Exhibition Guestbook: “Thank you! What an increadible, inspiring exhibit! ”

Though we did not photograph visitors, we were not able to resist capturing this cute little girl of age 5 or so, who was photographing Oriland with zeal and laughing!

From Exhibition Guestbook: “Crazy! It looks so awesome I can't believe my eyes. Fantastic woork. I can stare at it forever. ”

From Exhibition Guestbook: “I think your exhibit was amasing! Me being an artist and absolutely adoring how you used origami, I was very impressed. Thank you for all the work you've done!

So here our photo-journey around the entire Oriland exhibition, that was held in Downtown Toronto, during March Break ends. We do hope that you got the idea of What Origami Can Be!

See you at our next exhibition!

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