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Translation: NOT ENOUGH BUT ENOUGH. Many children in rural areas in the Philippines walk miles just to get to school. They wear ragged clothes, worn out and broken footwear and have barely enough money for food and school supplies. But surprisingly so they feel happy that they have the opportunity to go to school while many don't have that chance at all. This is an example of a trait of Filipinos - to always look at the brighter side of things no matter how trying times can be.

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...