LOS ANGELES (AP) — Remember those origami cranes you meticulously folded out of tiny slips of paper in elementary school? Featuring nine international contemporary artists, the exhibit explores origami, the 1,000-year-old Japanese tradition of folding paper into objects, as much more than small-scale craft. American origami master Robert Lang's "Vertical Pond II" showcases groups of colorful koi fish — sculpted out of 60 uncut sheets of paper — lining a wall. Based in Israel with his Israeli artist wife Miri Golan, who has three works in the exhibit, British artist Paul Jackson called his untitled piece a reflection on how "notions of front, back, left, right become one during the process of folding." Each of her pieces in the exhibit, including two scrolls connected by a twisted, pleated, white sheet of paper and resembling both the Jewish Torah and Muslim Quran, took roughly four to six days to complete. The pair's sleek, looping, curving "Destructors" and "Together" sculptures are made of circles of paper that bend according to natural creases and are interwoven through holes in the center of each circle, explained Martin Demaine. Made of crumpled and inflated tissue paper, the sea urchin-like creatures of Floderer's "Unidentified Flying Origami" dangle from the ceiling.