Not many people can say that they’ve been on a national television show for being clever, but one Wagga boy has already done it at the tender age of seven.
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Agustin Candusso will feature on the Seven Network’s show, Little Big Shots this Sunday night, where children of exceptional talent are put on a national platform.
The seven-year-old began folding tissues when he was two, but soon turned to paper, before last year starting his origami business called Papel (Paper).
Selling his wares at Wagga’s River and Wren Markets is now a growing online business which offers handcrafted origami for presents, corporate events and even wearable art.
“The best part is I get to spend time with my mum,” Agustin Candusso said.
Like millions of others on Sunday night, Agustin will be watching Little Big Shots with his family as an early birthday present, as he will turn eight the following day.
“I started with animals and then mum got me an origami book about lotus and tulips and then started selling them,”
“I’m using my imagination to make new stuff like I made today a chair,”
“I just want to keep want it to keep on growing and growing so I can have a budget and maybe when I’m a teenager and my brother, we can fly from Wagga to Sydney, to Japan, then we fly to Uruguay and then we fly to Fiji and then we fly back to Sydney and then we fly back to Wagga.”
The specific wish list is hardly surprising considering Agustin’s attention to detail, but the question ‘why those locations’ had to be asked.
“I want to go Japan to see how they make their origami, because I’m fascinated about one of their masters called Akira Yoshizawa and he made a face of his very own, and he made orangutans, and peacocks with legs,”
“And I want to go to Uruguay to watch (Luis) Suárez in soccer, and I want to go to Fiji to have a big holiday with catamaran and kayaking,” Agustin said.
Agustin’s mum Caroline says all the ideas are his, and he keeps coming up with more.
“He said, ‘I just really want to do this, I want to do this as a business’ and we went, ‘okay, let’s go on an adventure’ and that’s what it is, it’s a really marvellous paper adventure that we’re on,” Mrs Candusso said.
“And I’ve had to learn to fold as I’ve never folded before either, so that’s been a real education and a lot of fun, like it’s really meditative and therapeutic to just sit there and fold,” she said.
Agustin will feature on the Seven Network’s show, Little Big Shots, Sunday night from 7pm.
