Crochet Installation Art by Aze Ong
For Project Bakawan
2015, UP Diliman College of Arts and Letters
Featured Artist of the Week:
If you've ever been told that dreams come true, they're probably right. Weaving together colors and crochet, Aze Ong transforms spaces into places you've only seen in fantasies. Despite not having any formal background in art, her work has been showcased even by the National Commission on Culture and the Arts, as well as various galleries and exhibit spaces.
What can be described as exotic and surreal, Ong crochets organic forms that at first closely resembles aquatic life - the kind you'd never see in real life as they're tucked away in the undisturbed parts of the earth's waters. Close inspection can show colors that don't seem to go along - turquoises and browns, golds and beiges, as well as different textures and these are all brought together to provide a dreamworld experience. Some can be placed on your head as hats, some have interaction value by squeezing, or even more personal - a hiding space. A multitude of smaller pieces - no two are alike - are usually accompanied by a giant "squidlike" piece that brings them all together in the environment it creates. It may evoke a sort of Takashi Murakami's Superflat with all its mushrooms and weird shapes, but Aze Ong certainly takes the flat out of it and into something that has never been more right in front of your eyes.
Take this chance and experience dreams at the CAL Atrium this week all through February!
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