Underwhelming

This is my second attempt at the reindeer from Lang and Weiss Origami Zoo. The book as a whole is underwhelming. So far the praying mantis is the only model I am eager to repeat. (The pegasus is also cool.) On this model the antlers are a mess, and it doesn't really look like a reindeer. It looks more like a unicorn that got hit by lightning. Or maybe a bull having an identity crisis. Lang is definitely the master of insects, but John Montroll's models of mammals I find are more whimsical and charming and balanced and economical to fold also for bit players like me. The moose I spotted outside my hotel in Florida last weekend stumbled out of the final pages of his book North American Animals in Origami.