_Guardian Angel_

Guardian Angel

Oil on cradled canvas

4’ x 4’

January 26 - 31, 2019

In the fourth hour after sunrise an angel leads a boy and a girl across a municipal bridge. They are leaving behind a squalid area of informal settlers on the right and are moving toward a place of lush Nature on the left.

This painting was designed to hang in the Library Director’s office at Maryhill School of Theology. A small, cardboard model of a pyramid will be hung on the right side of the painting to show how this painting was conceived, which was to view the flat surface of the painting as a three-dimensional pyramid from directly on top of it.

Imagine the painting cut into four quadrants, or isosceles triangles, then imagine constructing them together again in the shape of a pyramid. The apex of the pyramid should be that tiny space between the angel’s left hand and the little girl’s head.

This is the auditory stimulus I used while making this painting. It became popular in the Philippines in 1964, when I was in seventh grade. My older sisters started taking me to their dance parties then. (Yes, I danced.) The lead drummer of this group passed away quite recently, so this is somewhat a tribute to him:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIuIIqbyEIU

See how the picture can be divided into different planes, like sculpture, and how lighting changes it depending on where it's coming from.

_COR UNUM ET ANIMA UNA_

COR UNUM ET ANIMA UNA

Oil on cradled canvas

4’ x 4’

January 4 – 24, 2019

This is the Visayan portrayal of Mary for Maryhill School of Theology. Mary wears kimona and patadyong. In the background are different samples of woven, Visayan cloth, hablon and cotton patadyong fabric. The CICM slogan is in the foreground.

This painting was designed to hang above the stairwell, directly over the steps, leading from the second floor to the third floor of the library. It is therefore visible only to people descending from the third floor to the second floor.

This was the auditory stimulus I used for this work. I listened to it a lot when I was a college student, and it was a pleasure to listen to it over and over again while I was making this painting:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjsNNcsUNzE

Professor Manny de Guzman of Maryhill School of Theology sent me this photo of one of my early works (so early that I've completely forgotten the title I gave it; must be "Celadon"). It's on a wall in his house, and I am so honored.