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This painting is a guide to some seasonal fruits in the Philippines. If you use your imagination and cut the painting into 12 rows with the bottom row being January, you'll see what I mean.

Almost all of them are looking at one lady carrying the bananas. Why? Admiration with a little envy. Bananas are the number one fruit export of the Philippines. Bananas and plantains also rank as the fourth most consumed staple crop in the world after rice, wheat and corn.

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...