"If you listen to what your materials want, you understand what your materials are like, you're able to start working with them, having a conversation with them and start figuring out what the materials can do, want to do and what you can really showcase with your materials, he says. I'm a big experimenter. I have to use my materials to know it. So, I guess in dialogue' is really this experimentation."
"I don't like to read on the subway. So when he had to occupy his time on public transit as a kid, he'd bring paper with him and experiment with different ways of folding it. Everywhere I went, [paper] was free, he says, I didn't need to carry it with me. I could go around the world and find paper."
Andrew Ooi began experimenting with paper because it was widely available and easy to find during childhood subway trips. He taught himself sculptural folding techniques by repeatedly testing paper in public transit and elsewhere. His solo exhibition at SSEW Project in Markham presents all 47 of his works to date. Being in dialogue with paper means becoming familiar with materials, shedding fear through trial and error, and attending to what the materials can and want to do. His two-fold creative process combines meditative planning and sketching with hands-on experimentation to discover marks and forms the paper will hold.
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