These paintings are an homage to my childhood in the tropical strangeness of my beloved islands of the Philippines. For some reason, growing up watching obscure, lo-budget, B-movie Filipino movies in corrosive yet bittersweet Manila greatly shaped my creative practice in New York where I currently live. I also remember when watching these movies alone during sweltering, humid afternoons on VHS is my knack of rewinding scenes I particularly like. Once in awhile I would come across a paused scene that would capture my interest–that uniquely “awkward” moment when the frame blurs the line between film and painting, or perhaps a beautiful yet always fleeting dream; that particular frame of a second when the elements seem to collide or the figures fade into obscurity, melding with the background and vice versa where time and space ultimately stood still.
Blue Barrels : oil on canvas, 24 x 32 in. 2013
Burlesque : oil on canvas, 24 x 28 in. 2013
Canopy : oil on canvas, 24 x 32 in. 2013
Dance : oil on canvas, 28 x 22 in. 2012
Flying Saucer : oil on canvas, 16 x 18 in. 2012
Fog : oil on canvas, 24 x 34 in. 2012
Gun : oil on canvas, 30 x 30 in. 2012
Gunshot : oil on canvas, 30 x 40 in. 2013
Hand Gun : oil on canvas, 20 x 20 in. 2012
Heroine : oil on canvas, 24 x 24 in. 2012
Into The Forest : oil on canvas, 28 x 28 in. 2013
Jumping Cowboy : oil on canvas, 24 x 24 in. 2012
Peace : oil on canvas, 32 x 30 in. 2013
Pirate : oil on canvas, 24 x 36 in. 2012
Police Cars : oil on canvas, 22 x 32 in. 2013
Senorita : oil on canvas, 30 x 30 in. 2012
Skull and Bones and Pirate : oil on canvas, 24 x 36 in. 2012