KH Art Craft

A special appreciation to the Citadines Connect Georgetown Penang Hotel for supporting my charity cause by providing the avenue to sell my origami pieces. The charity sale is happening in their Citadines Festive Marche which celebrate the festive season.

An origami Christmas Tree was commissioned by the Malaysia Origami Academy to be displayed in Tokyo Street, Pavilion Kuala Lumpur. This tree including the star at the top is five feet in height and is assembled together using 340 pieces of papers. And it is designed in a way that it is hanging on an internal structure, and no adhesive medium is used for the kusudama assembly. Thank you to Mr. Kenneth Ch'ng from the Malaysia Origami Academy for the support.

 Arts in the Park, organized by YB Syerleena Abdul Rashid, to spark the creative community in Penang. The event was partnered with Penang Hidden Gems, My Kreatif Penang, Tuanku Fauziah Museum and Art Gallery (MGTF-USM), Penang Art District, and Penang Walkabouts. I had the chance to teach a traditional paper folding model, called the Card Cube, a highly modular paper folding which can be used to form many different forms. 

I got the chance to travel to Johor to participate in the Malaysia's Book of Record for the largest Johor flag made using Origami Wau Merak designed by Cheong Chin Foong. And I also got the change to display the kusudama's that I have folded in the event.

Special thanks to Kult Gallery from Singapore for inviting me to their art group exhibition. The exhibition focuses on mini art and I got to send six of my mini paper art pieces to their show.

 I had a wonderful time in Beangels Specialty Coffee teaching one of my kusudama model. Not only the folded model can be used for display, it also can be used as a lamp for beautiful decoration. Hope all participants are happy and contented with their origami product.

In conjunction with the celebration of Malaysia Origami Day, a twelve feet origami sculpture was commissioned by the Malaysia Origami Academy to be displayed in Tokyo Town, Pavilion Bukit Jalil. The macro origami pillar is made by the concept of modular origami where multiple pieces of folded papers are combined to form a final art piece. Besides the center pieces, ten other kusudama's are also displayed in the exhibition.

 I would like to thank the Asosiasi Origami Indonesia for having me to conduct one of their Origami Fun Class. Participants managed to fold my design, the Diamond Curler, during the online session.

Two of my paper art creation was accepted in the 2023 Kecik-kecik Group Show, organized by the Penang Art District and Arteesan.io.  Abundance and Black Dhalia were the two pieces exhibited in Hin Bus Depot from 3rd to 12th March 2023.

A walk down memory land, recalling the event where I got to participate in sharing the art of paper folding.  It was a great opportunity to promote the art of Origami to the public during the 2023 Penang Chap Goh Mei Festival.  I got to showcase some Origami inspired Lanterns where one of them is designed by my Origami friend from Vietnam, @the_lightguide Participants also folded the Origami Bunny, although is not a simple design, this shows that the Art of Origami do need patience and practice and yet it is an art form that is accessible to all. Thanks to Penang Art District  for the invite to this event. And also thanks to Malaysia Origami Academy for the guidance in my Origami journey.