Wonderful V'Ann (by Eric Joisel)

Please excuse my very bad english.
As many folders, I encount V'Ann in different parts of the planet (Charlotte & NY, Vancouver, Salzburg...) That was always with a delightful pleasure. Of course she had important place and activities in the origami world family, origami USA, Southeastern Origami Festival, Masters of Origami, Mingei. She help a lot to see origami to be better considered as an artform, but what I will keep the most in memory is the person she was. Between our different encounts, I have specially in mind a beautifull day we spend in Austria, walking together in Salzburg's full of tourists streets, visiting casttle and museums, and have a very nice lunch in a top-building restaurant, closed to the river. The weather was absolutly perfect, and we just relax at the end of the MoO. V'Ann looks in good health at that time, and was as always so gentle, so generous, always thinking to the others more than to herself. I am schocked and very sad, and present condoleances to her family.

Eric