Sean Stoker SPORTS EDITOR

The uses of a locker are various.  For some it;s a virtual home.  For others it does little more than hold books.  For Junior Kyler Davies, its primary function is origami storage.

As Davies swivels in his combo and swings the locker door open, it literally spills over with some fifty paper dragons, and handful of "flexiballs," and more rocket ships, panda bears, and braided ropes than some Asain art exhibits.

Origami is thought to have originated in Japan sometime in the seventeen century A.D.

The object of this antique art is to use one or more pieces of paper to form a three-dimensional price of art without the use of glue, tape, or other adhesives.

Modern Origami can delve deeply into the world of mathematics, such as certain crease patterns leading to certain three-dimensional effects.

In about eighth grade, Davies started on little things, like cranes, and became enthralled with paper folding, "i do it daily," said Davies, who claims to go through about eight sheets of paper per day.  "I mainly started because I was bored in class."

Since then, anyone who shares a class with Davies, has, in all probability, seen him meticulously folding paper into intricate pieces of art.

Junior Elijah Yarisantos, a friend who has known Kyler since eighth grade, says he got him interested.  "I started when I was twelve," said Yarisanton, "I've since stopped but Kyler got really into it and surpassed me.  He;s very into folding paper."

"He's taught himself completely," said Noni Davies, Kyler's mother.  "He spends a lot of time watching tutorials, but he's gotten to where he just figures things out.  It takes a lot of patience, I look at some of the simple stuff he makes ans think, 'I wouldn't know where to start.'"

Noni is surprised at how little paper her son goes through.  Only occasionally will he ask for more paper, because the way he folds, a little paper goes a long way.  "He'll use whatevr is around," she said. "newspapers, and poster board, [ect.]"

Kyler gives a lot of his origami away to friends.  The past Christmas fer instance he made several folded paper boxes with treats inside as gifts.

"He's very attracted to friends," said Yarisantos, "He's a little [different] at first, but he doesn't judge you.  When he becomes your friend, he just tries to make the friendship stronger."

Perhaps one of the most complicated things that Davies makes are his flexiballs, which he makes from about four pieces of paper.

"He makes them huge.  He once made a flexiball about thirty inches in diameter," said Yarisantos.  Davies also makes large three-dimension pandas and rocketships that can use more than two-hundred individual segments of paper.

Yarisantos states, "I'm pretty sure he'ss keep doing it for the rest of his life."