The living and dead

Raymund Fernandez 10/31/2015

This season is necessary. It becomes for us even more necessary the older we get. And yet, it might be one of the old traditions we have that may not last long into the future. This ritual…

The blankness

Raymund Fernandez 10/28/2015

It’s 9:30 and the story still has to take shape in his head. His head is not blank. Indeed, it is filled with too many things. It is the blank space he has to put there before…

Why form is dangerous

Raymund Fernandez 10/21/2015

In teaching young students how to draw, start by asking them to draw something, anything, without giving them any prior instructions whatsoever. Tell them to hold on to this first drawing. Teaching young people to draw changes…

The thing with lines

Raymund Fernandez 10/18/2015

He likes hotels. He is writing this at the Big Hotel in Cebu where lines are neatly arranged all about him. One gets the sense that the line was of great interest to the designers when they…

A structured drawing pedagogy

Raymund Fernandez 10/14/2015

When he tells his friends he teaches his drawing classes inside a structured syllabi, they react with disbelief. They think he is a person who does not abide by any structure. They do not understand he is…

These times

Raymund Fernandez 10/11/2015

These are challenging times, one fraught both with dangers and opportunities, more dangers and more opportunities than ever before inside this older man’s lifetime. He was born in the mid-1950s. Soon after the end of the previous…

Caviar vs tihi-tihi

Raymund Fernandez 10/07/2015

He was quite mature when he first tasted Russian caviar. It came in a very small can brought to the gathering by a relative and friend, a lawyer who loves horses. And the host, the good doctor,…

Flirt

Raymund Fernandez 10/04/2015

He would be lying if he told you he does not flirt. He has quite an excuse for it. He thinks he is a writer. And what a writer does, in a way of putting it, is…

We are all immigrants

Raymund Fernandez 09/27/2015

Pope Francis’ visit to New York reminded him of the biblical story of Jesus entering Jerusalem. He had in the course of his career as an illustrator of books made several versions of this biblical scene: Jesus…

Compass

Raymund Fernandez 08/30/2015

There is something of a first lesson in drawing he teaches his students. He teaches art and design. He expects that by the time the students come to him they already know how to draw. His role…

Kimsoy

Raymund Fernandez 08/26/2015

He saw a painting by Jose “Kimsoy” Yap when he was still a young man. It was a watercolor painting of a shore line, waves crashing into crags and rocks, foam flying outwards in a burst of…

Who’s afraid of Grace Poe?

Raymund Fernandez 08/19/2015

The headlines read that she said the Liberal Party should not wait for her to decide if she will run as running mate to Mar Roxas. We are used to nebulous political statements of that sort. They…

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