The song of a house

Raymund Fernandez 04/03/2018

I can hear it distinctly, to be sure, a soft voice on the edge of the range of hearing. I know I am hearing it, a faint humming with a soothing rhythmic time, like a nocturne from…

Sacred

Raymund Fernandez 03/27/2018

Can you measure the sacredness of a thing? By the standards of Wikipedia, to be sacred means to be “dedicated to a religious purpose and so deserving veneration.” This implies that as long as something is dedicated…

Hands

Raymund Fernandez 03/20/2018

What seems a small conundrum for older people could have the weight of epiphany for the young. I am using epiphany here in the old sense of the Greeks, which Wikipedia tells us means, “an experience of…

Ugly

Raymund Fernandez 03/13/2018

Plato said, beauty is the “object of love;” Aquinas, that beauty is that which “pleases when seen…” Both believed that beauty is universal, true for all and everywhere, unchanging, immutable; As if it went according to the…

Graffiti

Raymund Fernandez 03/06/2018

Freedom is a funny thing. Some people go through life thinking it is all about doing everything “the man” tells you. Others think the opposite. And yet, either way could be right. It all depends on a…

One for EDSA

Raymund Fernandez 02/27/2018

One ought have faith in history. One ought have faith in history just to be at peace in a world where fake news presents itself as truth. And truth is pilloried all the time for being fake…

The point of it

Raymund Fernandez 02/20/2018

In judging any person’s success, especially one’s own, one ought use for reference how one defines the point of all this. There is always the question of meaning. The same question of meaning one applies in the…

Love, as ever still

Raymund Fernandez 02/13/2018

No matter what, there will still be love. And more of it would there be the more difficult times become since we live in a world ruled by mad and greedy men. And since time, thus, becomes…

20 years forward

Raymund Fernandez 02/06/2018

Artists and designers ought seriously consider the archival qualities of their works. The archival qualities of the medium or material are only the first considerations. Certain media and materials last hundreds of years. But the idea of…

‘Sugbuanon Realism’

Raymund Fernandez 01/30/2018

The good news is that we can now actually see local movements in the world of Sugbuanon art: There is an emerging contemporary art movement expressing itself in “Street Art” and its extensions; There is an Abstract…

A dog eat dog future

Raymund Fernandez 01/23/2018

After you have lived long enough you begin to detect cycles in the years of history. Consider how the reign of Marcos and his Martial Law began in 1972. It took 14 years before this reign was…

Love in our time

Raymund Fernandez 01/16/2018

Today, I woke up to an incurable urge to write about love. Love like an ear worm sounding like that nursery tune “Three Blind Mice.” Love like a cartoon show. Love in its least fashionable sense. For…

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