Continued from Tony Perez's Electronic Diary (May 15 - October 19, 2018) at tonyperezphilippinescyberspacebook40.blogspot.com.

At Highest Point, Kiangan, Benguet

At Highest Point, Kiangan, Benguet
2013, at Highest Point, Kiangan, Benguet, during the conservation project for the Kabayan Mummy Caves. Funded by the Ambassador's Fund for Cultural Preservation, the National Commission for Culture and the Arts, and the National Museum of the Philippines. Photo by JR Dalisay

Wednesday, December 12, 2018

_COR INMACULATA MARIAE_


COR INMACULATA MARIAE
Oil on cradled canvas
4’ x 3’
November 27 – December 12, 2018

In this painting of Mary as Inang Bayan, the CICM coat of arms is superimposed on her bodice with the symbol of her Immaculate Heart in the middle of her chest. The shape of the coat of arms is echoed by the shape of the stranded sampaguitas on a background of sinamay, or woven abaca, behind her.

This is all I listened to while making this painting. I should mention, though, that the auditory stimuli for my paintings have nothing to do with the subject matter of the paintings themselves. It merely dawned on me while I was painting that I set up my easel in the middle of our erstwhile Miranda's Cove, a sort of neighborhood Moulin Rouge in the early 2000s. My younger son Chito used to sing this song in 2004:




















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