BAGUIO CITY — What does it mean to grow up in an age shaped by online culture, inherited traditions, and ever-shifting ideas of adulthood? In her first solo exhibition, Gorls Gorls Gorls, illustrator and visual artist Ja Amores reflects on these questions and the emotional landscape of girlhood. Opening on Aug. 8 at Indigo Gallery, BenCab Museum, the exhibition...
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Sea people and their buoyant ontology
Who are the sea people? What does it mean for people to embody the vastness of the sea? What happens when the sea’s massiveness measures up with the collectivity of the people? I view these questions as urgent with the return of Jon Cuyson to Vargas Museum of the University of the Philippines Diliman with Taong...
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Leonardo da Vinci in overwhelming view
MELBOURNE—These excerpts are from what is believed to be the world’s first résumé on record: “I have plans for light, strong and easily portable bridges… I can give complete satisfaction…in architecture and the construction of buildings public and private; and in conducting water from one place to another…. In case of need I will make...
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Savoring the last morsel (as though on ‘Pakaskas’)
How does one desperately savor the last morsel when our planet stands on the brink of global disaster? But do not we savor the morsel on the pretext of absolute disappearance of plenitude? Is the savoring of a morsel always portentous to the irretrievable end of wealth, fertility, and resources? Savoring the last morsel of...