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For Linya because she asked: Last night’s absinthe did not affect him quite as much. He woke up in the early morning, woke up into the cold before the sun came high enough to bring on the…
What is form? How do we define it? How do we see it in an object; in any object, ranging from art to how a politician appears to us? Form is a complex thing often misunderstood especially…
He remembers Butch Abad from the old days. He came across him from time to time in the course of hanging out with his older brother. Bimbo and Butch are old friends. Their affinity stretches back to…
There is a heartless Christ outside his door. A long story explains how he got there. He is made of hand tooled copper over a meter tall from the waist up, a representation of the Sacred Heart…
His people have a way of bundling themselves up like little babies in the early morning by the rural roadside when they waited for the morning bus. They squat a particular way to keep out the cold,…
In his heart and mind, he is retired. He started being retired when his close friend told him one evening not long ago how everyday from hereon is just added bonus. He found this statement rather intriguing,…
A bit of a funny conversation with his kids: “You know everything! Are you God?” He suspected sarcasm at first. But no, it was said in earnest. A child’s innocent gratitude for a matter-of-fact answer for what…
How do artists tell if what they do is beautiful? In turn, how do viewers of art tell if the art they’re looking at is any good? According to George Dickie who wrote “Aesthetics: An Introduction”, Plato…
Filipinos need to clarify their understanding of Western and local artistic history. We have a problem acquiring a whole big picture of both histories. The problem has to do with the fact of distance. When Westerners read…
Many years ago, he did a research project for the University of the Philippines to photographically document the church-ceiling paintings on some churches in the islands of Bohol and Cebu. Most of these were done by Raymundo…
Using the diagrammatic representation of a tree, how would we correctly represent Philippine art history? Would it be grafted to the trunk of the Western art history tree, growing out like a branch from the European High…
The age of information necessitates a new mindset for understanding art history in general and our own Cebuano art history in particular. How history was taught in school usually entailed taking up the chronology of historical developments…
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