Where it All Started...
It all began with an Art Installation for Plus 1 Festival, where JooJ created a large UV artwork installation piece for the LOVERS getting hitched at a 3 Day Art & Music Festival.
And after 2 years of folding, he is now Officially Amazing!
The Question
How Many???
The question came up, “How many Butterflies did you fold to make this Artwork?”
JooJ had no idea, until that very moment, he had never thought to count them.
The follow-up question set his wheels in motion, “Any idea on how many Butterflies are in the Guinness World Record?”
Upon researching it, JooJ found it was just over 11 200 odd in an Origami Butterfly Display, a number he felt he had folded for this one piece.
Officially Amazing!
So as a Creative Adventurer, inspired by his Lover to Achieve Greatness, he set out to smash the World Record, and after 2 years dedicated to folding each and every Origami Butterfly, he personally shattered the record with a count of 29 416.
With the audited count enough to set a NEW WORLD RECORD for THE LARGEST DISPLAY OF ORIGAMI BUTTERFLIES, Juanne-Pierre De Abreu is one of 150 South African’s to have a Guinness World Record, making JooJ Officially Amazing!
The butterflies from the count could not be painted, due to one of the many GWR rules, so the Black to White arrangement with select rainbow inspired colours in between, have subsequently been used to create 10 Officially Amazing artworks that come with his Guinness World Record Certificate.