The first law of motion

Raymund Fernandez 06/04/2014

The future is imprinted in human genes. Much of what humans do have to do with the future and preparing for it. Intelligence is a predictive sensibility. The mind processes cues in the present and calculates what…

Improvisations on a machine

Raymund Fernandez 05/28/2014

The road cuts through the geographics, the lay of the land. It cuts through the social fabric. It cuts through culture over boundaries of time. We can never understand where we came from by sitting on our…

Sea turtles

Raymund Fernandez 05/21/2014

My friend Jessie Saclo is teaching a kindergarten class at Cebu International School. His students are doing war with the baddies of the world and doing art on behalf of sea turtles. They have been making posters…

The generations

Raymund Fernandez 05/11/2014

Children make us think of family and the future. Have a child and you will never sleep the same way again. That’s what one learns over the years. Children signify change. They change very quickly in their…

Old car

Raymund Fernandez 05/07/2014

Old cars are lines in a poem. New cars just keep going until they break down. And when they do, you open the hood only to find under it a complexity much too difficult to comprehend. There…

The saints of Lent

Raymund Fernandez 04/23/2014

They spent the remainder of the Lenten week in Baclayon, Bohol. Here, the carrozas are more numerous and for the most part bigger than what they had seen in Dumanjug at the Wednesday procession. They found a…

Resurrection

Raymund Fernandez 04/20/2014

It was a long drive that got them here. Here, to this old house with a reputation for being haunted by many ghosts. There is a huge cavernous sala leading to the master bedroom. Two light bulbs…

St. Peter’s cock

Raymund Fernandez 04/16/2014

The folk understanding of chicken lore requires a clear distinction made between a rooster and a cock. A rooster is only a male chicken. Cock suggests always the possibility of fighting represented always by its ideally regal…

The post-colonial

Raymund Fernandez 04/09/2014

She asked, why do most Filipinos prefer people who are white-of-skin? She is a 14-year-old Filipina just learning to grow as a visual artist and so her questions were all about the local inclination to “reverse-racism”. Koreans…

By water

Raymund Fernandez 04/06/2014

Though we mostly fly now, nothing quiet compares to traveling by water, floating over it inside a principle of physics first defined by Archimedes of Syracuse over 2 thousand years ago. “Any object, wholly or partially immersed…

Gina Apostol

Raymund Fernandez 04/02/2014

Gina Apostol is giving a talk this Saturday, April 5, 2014, 2 pm at the University of the Philippines Cebu campus in Lahug. She will be speaking of her novels and “Historiographic Metafiction”. The talk is open…

‘Piege’ of RV Sanchez

Raymund Fernandez 03/26/2014

Piege is the French word for trap. This is also the name of RV Sanchez’s thesis exhibit which closed last March 19 at the Halad Museum in Cebu City. Few exhibits require the onlooker to read up…

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