same old bananas

in light of the same ol' same ol' who won our senatorial race... (okay... photo not too accurate...)

i'd like to juxtapose our situation with the most recent installation at silverlens.

yes, they seem like statesmen perhaps from the lower house?

complete with barongs and masks...

and in the middle of it all are bananas...

and their "holy" leader... hmmmm.......

well, as the artist aptly called it...

same ol', same ol'.

i love nona garcia

this is absolutely big & beautiful...

and also absolutely pricy.

i saw this one online...

too... cute...

someday...

berry cute

i know this show was about to end, and i couldn't let it pass without showing it to you.

it's by a very talented graphic artist/illustrator (i think) named luis lorenzana. it took him 3 years to finish this particular piece.

what i really really like are his drawings (he had more in the booklet).

this is the one i REALLY liked. (sold na though). i know the frame does a lot for it, but i'm loving the drawing, and the fact that the canvas was treated to look aged.

these 2 were the only ones not sold.

now i'm kinda tempted to get them since it's right up my campy/kitschy aesthetic.

but i think i like them only because i REALLY like his drawings.

note: seeds of strawberries are hearts :)

in the presence of greatness

this week, i spent a lot of time taking in from the experts...

first from ashoka VP oliver kayser.

ashoka is a network and fund for the world's best social entrepreneurs.

beside oliver is one of ayala's head honchos (since they were the ones who brought him in).

i expected more from the small roundtable, honestly. i guess since i've read up so much on this field, i know a lot about it already. *nerd*

so the afternoon was more of a reassurance than a new lesson learned. (although i did learn that poland's gov't had good stuff we could learn from... more about that later...)

i also attended the 'creativity' anniversary talk at SLAB by my idol, gilda cordero.

she started the discussion with an activity with a table we were supposed to think of as something else...

here were some of the ideas...

a kariton...

a jeepney...

an insufficient shelter from the rain...

(guy underneath is an ADB head honcho)

(his wife makes things from trash... like this necklace she made from casette tapes, plastic blob from factories, etc... but more on her another time...)

kate used it as a stage and sang 'usahay' beautifully...

massage 'table'...

the rest of the talk was a discussion facilitated by the-1-billion-peso-science-museum-in-the-fort curator maribel garcia (more on her later)...

there was a lot of discussion... but to tell you the truth, i really would have rather heard more from the goddess.

but a little bird told me she was tired... i mean she is 79... but her spirit is definitely younger than all of ours.

anyway it's an honor just the same to be among all these greats.

yun lang :)

maude marie and other curiosities

hey sis :)

checked out pepper roxas' show in silverlens.  they extended it only until the 30th so i didn't wait for you na :(

anyhoo, here it is.  i loved it, as expected.

the whole show revolved around half-kid half-animal images.  very wuzzles.  this is the half crow... this is the one you got to see in the box, remember?

this one's really creative.  it's about a boy who stole a magic potion thingy...  this is the whole installation...

the drawing...

half deer... very 'the shining' donchatink?

mushrooms... hihihi.

half squirrel ?   loving the glass enclosure.

this one's really cute.  half bird with blue eggs.

half giant squid...

outside 20square was the show of hanna pettyjohn.  wow!  what a talent!

this i liked... i thought it was such a random american scene... and it had a 'love' billboard on it  :)

 

then i realized after that the show IS called 'the american sweet' -- haha!

don't you think that was quite ominous of her to paint these face masks?  she did this before the swine flu broke!

yun lang :)  see you soon!

bukod tanging pag-ibig

took at peek at bogey ruiz's new show in slab.  it's an homage to amorsolo... quite cool.

these are the ones i liked most...

"dalagang bukid" but this time with imelda, and on a golf course.  

beside it is a sculpture called "ube" which i quite like too.

another fave, "oil/painting".

this is another version of his well-known scultpure... but this time it's covered in "amorsolo" flowers.  love it!!!  now if only i had a patio and lots of extra cash............

the scultpure is actually a cathedral inside a "kariton"...  sorta like the church propagating poverty propagating the church propagating.......  love it :)

yun lang.

SLab +

hey sis,

dropped by silverlens gallery's new extension, SLab (Silverlens Lab) which showcases paintings, drawings and sculpture.

the pilot show is by genius patty eustaquio.  (she makes fab dresses -- but i think is ultimately a super smart and talented artist.  she graduated magna cum laude from UP fine arts!)

title of show:  death to the major viva minor.

her works are commentary to JS Bach's piano exercise 'the well tempered clavier'... i can't really articulate how the whole show works... but anyway, here are the paintings and sculptures...

within SLab is 20Square, a smaller space for projects, consignments, etc.  

in this space were the works of mariano ching, one of my faves.  he loves to draw wierd images with hairy monsters, rainbows and other unrelated knick knacks.

isa does it again!  what a super duper space.

SLab is right across silverlens.  

silverlens' show was isa's 3rd called 'the moro negatives' -- cool layered images from the south.

Slab and silverlens is connected by a bridge they built.

reminds me of the connecting houses of my idol frida khalo and her husband diego rivera. 

(frida's is the blue one).

yun lang :)