GEORGE TOWN: Retired teacher Ee Choo Teck, 88, proves to be an origami crafter having produced 600 types of fighter jets using the paper-folding technique.
He has been making origami for 24 years and now owns a studio called"Modern Origami", located in Bukit Jambul here, to display thousands of his origami works.
"After my return from the airplane exhibition, I started making fighter jets by folding papers for my grandson... that was how I started making origami and it has now become my passion," he told Bernama when met at his residence in Bukit Jambul recently.The largest F15 origami is over 1m in size, which he said took him almost a day to complete.
"It was then that a teacher friend suggested that I sell origami fighter jets because the origami is unique and beautiful. Due to the encouraging response, Ee said participated in the weekend Armenian Street market to sell his craftwork and was able to sell between 40 to 50 origami fighter jets of various sizes daily with sales amounting to RM300.
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