This is the first artwork of a series about birth, marriage and death, that I created with handmade paper and digital images.

It was inspired by kimonos that I saw while shopping in Japan.
I chose a white kimono to represent birth, not because it is a Japanese custom, but because I wanted to indicate purity.

However, in some cases, young children do wear a white undergarment, beneath a more colourful kimono.

I used a digital image, I created in Inkscape, for the image. I then used origami to fold the Kimono and both the image and kimono are placed on traditional Japanese papers.