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Translation (loosely): SORROW BEHIND THE FESTIVE WREATHS
During the Pahiyas Festival in the town of Lukban, Quezon Province in the Philippines, the town folk adorn their houses with colorful wreaths and chandeliers called kipings (colorful and edible rice wafers) to celebrate the harvest and honor the patron saint of farmers San Isidro Labrador.

In the face of the elaborate and sometimes costly celebration of bounty, many people in the Philippines are still mired in poverty and live in hand-to-mouth existence. There is cause for celebration and yet behind the merriment there is also cause for sadness for the people who have little to eat.

I paint visual narratives. I try to create stories with themes that range from the blissful to the brooding. Typically, my compositions are laden with common and personal symbolism. My works seem to have disconnected elements but they are in fact linked in the way that I see them. To the audience, however, they are like puzzles; open to varied personal interpretations. I don’t like to confine myself in a box. Some days I paint social commentaries. Other days I just paint my personal observations of issues that pertain to almost anything under the sun - this can be political, social, environmental, religious, cultural, and even agricultural. I try to paint realities in, out, and of life. Early in my career as a painter, I was mostly...

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