reflections 2
alee garibay
Usiw
oil on canvas
Sumisilip
Pumupukaw
Pasulyap-sulyap
Sa mga sanga't dahong
Sala-salabit
Minsa'y sumasabit
Minsa'y maganit
Sa loob nagngingitngit
Sisidlan ng bunga
Bibiyakin at bubuka
Talinhaga o talangka
Sabik sa magtangka
martin honasan
Looking for a Fixed Point
mixed media on paper
“Looking for a Fixed Point” is about my own search for stability, solid footing, a reliable truth, purpose, and peace in the middle of the slowly burning anxiety that has been gradually mounting since the start of this year.
emard cañedo
Me (Uncertainty Period)
oil on canvas
In the painting, the artist invites us to see the world from point of view of someone (also the artist) stuck inside the house due to COVID-19 pandemic. He invites us to look out of the window and to see the lines that depicts the barrier, or the feeling of isolation and separation. Alternatively, he invites us to view the lines as a huge barcode to remind us just how much the price of the pandemic costs especially for those who lost their livelihood. Finally, the artist also offers a sense of hope, that when you look up from the window and see the sky, a brand-new day is promised.
ferdinand doctolero
Mukha-Ko e2
acrylic and oil pastel on canvas
Mukha is a sanskit word meaning "Visage". A person's face, with reference to the form or proportions of the features. A person's facial expression. The surface of an object presented to view.
sarah geneblazo
Curative Solitude
oil on canvas
Long isolation develops anxiety, fear of uncertain future, loss of income and also loss of loved ones. And art use as therapy and instrument in dealing with our struggle in this time of crisis; it is also a device that aids all of this negative energy that the coronavirus pandemic brought to us, to helps us get in touch with those feelings and deal with it. Artist could be an agent of solution in our mental sanity. By creating art that gives hope, joy and cure in this difficult time. They also provide ideas, design that efficiently make things easier and more innovative conception to help us in the future. And being in the state of solitary,this give artists more ideas and solution to cope up on this difficult situation.
martin maturan
Connection
oil on canvas
During this unpleasant time, most people is looking for ways that can help them lessen their stress. Some people discover their love in taking care of plants, while others discover their potential in cooking,baking etc. as their way to cope up with the situation. But someone find the love and connection in a old and tired cat. They have been together for a long time but this pandemic helped them to build a stronger connection. The cat made him feel that he is never alone, he may not talk like a human being but as they say action speaks louder than voice. They know that they will both survive this dark times together and they will always be on each others side.
jason moss
Mossy
oil on canvas
As artists/creators, time has always provided us with understanding the effects of events on people; how we have come to formulate ideas with our own methods based in our own perspectives. What artists produce and provide are fragments in time, reflective of whatever state the human condition is in, continuously questioning, formulating ideas that best represent that period of thought, providing more knowledge in the continuous evolution of art, its artists and their practices.
lui manaig
Live Long and Prosper
acrylic on canvas
As an artist, I want to represent people in the queer community. Boldly stating through my art that no matter who you are, you’re still a part of this world and that you matter. And you have the every right to LIVE LONG and PROSPER.
Plet bolipata
Self-portrait: Hot flushes, Cold flushes
oil and collage on canvas
They call it climate change. Others call it global warming. Call it what you want. But when you understand the ruminations of the female body, sometimes I feel, just like me, Mother Nature is going through a hormonal imbalance.
Art really imitates and intimates life.
judeo herrera
Endangered: A See-Through Cage
acrylic on canvas
The present pandemic somehow makes us feel endangered and reminds us that freedom is not absolute, there will always be limitations set in order for us to survive. These limitations safe-guards our existence like see-through cages that bars us from inflicting harm to ourselves and to others as well. The lockdowns gave us time to reflect and contemplate our vision as an artist and challenge us in how to stay connected with our audience while continuing our passion in producing art through these trying times.
The choice of pursuing art as career became more challenging when artists are put in a situation to choose between creating art as a passion and providing for your daily bread. “Artists as an endangered species” as it seems.
alex ordoyo
Healing
acrylic and oil on canvas
Art heals and makes us a better person.
joeN sudlon
Tagapagalaga
graphite on canvas
Your mother cared for you more than she could ever love herself and her precious garden.
But when you were a child, you only destroyed these blossoms. As the plants play and the leaves sway; You ruined thy precious garden, while your mother cared for it. Now that your mother has passed, the responsibility of taking care of thy garden rests now in your hands. Just like the responsibility you carry to take care of yourself.
faye abantao
The Timeless Witness
digital collage, printed text on acid free book paper with black pigment ink, pigment ink image transfer on folded paper, paper on canvas
Art as a timeless traveler can awaken your senses, captivate your mind and trouble your soul. It intimidates, perplexes and beguiles you to your core. Art has the power to take you through all kinds of emotions, but it can also travel you through time, to places where you can feel one’s pain or joy.
ioannis sicuya
The Artist as Ouroboros
non-sag epoxy and wood
An artwork is not a passive consequence of an artist's whim. An artwork is an artist's way of making sense of the world and of his own being. As such it can reflect its maker's personal history, the artist's ever-changing self regardless of whether the change was for the better or for the worse. An artwork reveals the artist's constant trasformation. The cyclical process of building up and breaking down, of creating and destroying, and of consumption and growth.
archie oclos
Kubli
acrylic on canvas
Patuloy tayong sumuong sa agos ng mga pagsubok sa buhay kahit pa sinasakripisyo nito ang sarili. Ang sining at kultura ang nagmamarka ng iyong kaluluwa.
anton del castillo
Seer
oil on gold leaf panel
The artist’s eyes see beyond and confront reality’s deceits to paint a glimpse of what the future can be. He is his society’s seer – both a herald of good fortune and a harbinger of doom.
arnel natividad
Eyewitness
acrylic on canvas
To an enemy we can't see
Prayers are Our Weapon
To an enemy we can see
Silence is Never an Option
roy rosatase
Fairness
oil on canvas
In my own opinion as an artist, one must not be one sided in order to be able to balance the positive and the negative side of reality.
Maverick abac
Profile Under Investigation
oil on canvas
In this age of terror, those who dissent are muted; those who fight are oppressed. And unless we amplify our voices, we will continue to live under threat. When you have the power to echo noise, it becomes a sin to be silent. We need to speak today.
MARCEL ANTONIO
Self-Portrait: Saan Nakatayo ang Sining Mo, Kaibigan?
acrylic on canvas
The question that I am pursuing: What are we to make of works of art whose apparent point is to convince us of the meaninglessness and absurdity of human existence? Do we turn our gaze away from this violence and alienation? Our existence is absurd in the sense that violence has widened the tear between mind and nature, our desire for unity is ironically done through wanton destruction and domination of nature. Despite the absurdity of our human condition, I think Camus is right to think that no art can reject reality, and that art in the final sense is really the naked embodiment of a rectification of our alienated existence.
DENGCOY MIEL
Self-Portrait, 56
acrylic on canvas
A self portrait may be dismissed by some as mere exercise in vanity, a chance to embellish a conceit and reinforce all imagined qualities and half-truths. But for some artists it is also a chance to bare his soul to the world, warts and all. An artist who is honest with himself would display every mortal crack on his skin, magnify a blemish on his soul perhaps that is all at once beautifully ugly. A visual record of his existence.
This self portrait, one of several I had done, shows me at my easel. I am 56 years old here and subtly plagued by infirmities, real and imagined. So my gaze of course is turned towards nurturing a legacy (the green sprout coming out of a paint tube) or it could also mean a desire to stay youthful and fresh, investing a reprieve and slow down this cosmological sweep of time.
paul eric roca
Amanuensis
acrylic on canvas
Aman·u·en·sis. The artist as a chronicler, a mirror in which society is reflected; both a witness and messenger.
pogs samson
Introspection
acrylic on textured canvas
Isang self portrait na nagpapakita ng mga elementong tumatalakay sa ating mga paniniwala. Pinapakita nito kung paano na ang sarili ang hari ng kalawakan biglang isang alegorya sa pagpapahalaga sa sarili.
francis bejar
Self Portrait
acrylic and push pin on canvas
It’s all about making noise in a society that is silently killing us. It doesn’t matter if it doesn’t feed me, I’d still be shitting this shit away anyway.
mark arcamo
Transforming Disconnection
acrylic on canvas
As an artist, the creative process and the healing process arise from a single source.
jaime pacena ii
Alab
Print, Acrylic on Cut Out 300gsm Acid Free CANSON Paper
I think as a curator, I plan as a director, I work as an artist and I talk as a teacher. This is what I believe I am in all of the things that I do in my career as a creator... and this work represents a homage to my parents whom I dedicate my work. This is a reflection of who I am today as an artist, honoring my parents' principles, their sacrifices and their passion to live and provide. The cut out process here is part of an exploration of material, a creative exercise, that no matter what I will always find different methods to explore this complex world we all live in. Umaapaw... umaalab--- Sa ngalan ng aking Ama, at ng aking Ina... ito ako ngayon ang kanilang anak.