Maybe you learned to fold origami as you grew up, a curious skill. It can transform one two-dimensional plane into almost any three-dimensional object; make cranes for world peace, even fold solar panels into space shuttles. Origami is associated with Japan, but was actually developed in the nineteenth century from European designs. This is one small way that even the art of Japan, an island that tried to exclude the rest of the world for so long, actually has multicultural roots. Not unlike origami, the Japanese folding screen, or byōbu (屏風), has history in East and West and maintains its functionality through a few simple folds. It was on screens that Japanese artists depicted the first Dutch traders to reach their island, and centuries later where French Impressionists explored Japonisme. Paired with the celebrated European medium of oil on canvas, this byōbu, called Self Portrait, incorporates such distant artistic influences as a representation of mixed-race identity, and its imagery illustrates an interplay between personal narrative and global history.