Why You Should Get This Painting

"Fair (Awit at Laro: Jak en Poy, unpublished)"

acrylic and iridescent paint on canvas, 18"x18"

2018

Simply because like the rest of my artworks, it has an interesting story behind it.

The short story is that this painting has been rejected because the imagery was perceived to be projecting some occult theme. For the ones who rejected the imagery, occult means only one thing: satanic…

I was like, what?! Where? Which one? And like, why and how would children even think about that? Wouldn’t they rather see that one-eyed thing as an alien (if you were cool enough)? Or maybe just an extraordinary being who likes beating the odds (my interpretation of the limerick-al song assigned to me, Jak en Poy)?

This painting was supposed to be part of an ambitious music + children’s book project spearheaded by a very popular singer-song writer in the country whom we shall name Good Vibes.

The project would then be a collection of traditional Filipino children’s songs remixed into a modern, contemporary…maybe post-modern twist. Traditional merged with non-conventional. My thought bubble bursting out loud like, isn’t my imagery portrays what you wanted to achieve all along? The songs would then be accompanied with a book rendered by premier children’s book illustrators of the country.

This painting will be auctioned to benefit Museo Pambata. 

(Some errors in the catalog: My suffix is not a Jr. and definitely not born in 1978)

I was kind of disappointed not because my work was rejected, in fact it gave this painting some colorful back story. It was a wasted opportunity to push the envelope for local children’s book illustration practice to progress from conservative and literal interpretations of content and narratives into multidimensional, diverse, inclusive, and multilayered realms as the world sees, and is slowly trying to correct now.

On another personal note, this painting is special to me because it’s one of my most noticeable style as a painter that I wanted to push in my children’s book illustration craft. It’s also one of the last few works that I created back home, before migrating to another country.

But most importantly, you should get this painting simply because you can further a cause in helping a children’s museum to live and prosper for underprivileged kids.

If you're interested to bid, please place them through this link, from April 9-11, 2021.

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