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Our Current Condition is the second year of Fortuna Circuit, an annual exhibition featuring artists from all around the Philippines.  To give more detail on the artists and their work, we've decided to feature a few interviews with the artists.  What art piece(s) are you bringing to the exhibit? What’s the story behind it?  My piece is entitled “Nascent” and this is my current condition.I believe I am still very “young” in my art journey.  Yes, it has been many years since I engaged in making art, but I feel there is still much to develop.  Having a baby gave me this realization. I looked at him when he came out, he is such a beautiful work of art and design and I adore him so much.  Later on, I realized that as perfect as I think he is, I knew he is going to be stronger, more beautiful, and more mature in the years to come.  I reflected it on my works.  I can be more confident, create more powerful art and generally a better person than I am today in the

Our Current Condition is the second year of Fortuna Circuit, an annual exhibition featuring artists from all around the Philippines.  To give more detail on the artists and their work, we've decided to feature a few interviews with the artists.  What art piece(s) are you bringing to the exhibit? What’s the story behind it?  I submitted something I’ve been trying to get rid of for 2 years now. It’s a collage of photographs. It’s called “You are a Beautiful Regret—Cigarettes from two years ago.” It’s basically just residual emotion for and from a past flame that I don’t want anymore. The piece is more cathartic and self-serving rather than weaponized and socially relevant. To me it’s important that I present this piece. Not only for myself but for anyone who’s hurting. I believe we deserve closure, and we can get that closure from ourselves. This is what my piece really means. It’s me coming to terms with myself.           What school of art do you follow? Who are

Our Current Condition is the second year of Fortuna Circuit, an annual exhibition featuring artists from all around the Philippines.  To give more detail on the artists and their work, we've decided to feature a few interviews with the artists. What art piece(s) are you bringing to the exhibit? What’s the story behind it?   Im showing a luta piece. I went to a tribe in bukidnon; Talaandig. The artist and craftmakers in the tribe is known for their soil paintings. For my piece, I will be using their local soil. I will apply the soil into the red and white cloth which is a common color in their culture and throughout the other tribes in Mindanao and Philippines.  What school of art do you follow? Who are your influences? I dont follow a particular school of art. I follow what works based on personal beliefs and principles or whats available. I like the works of Anselm Kiefer, Ai Weiwei, Zhan Huan. What’s your art process? Do you have any habits or practic

“PHOSPHORESCENCE. Now there's a word to lift your hat to... to find that phosphorescence, that light within...” ―  Emily Dickinson They’re back – the Umbra artists who capture gradating bolts of light and shadow that spill around women, bringing out their varying but equally captivating shades and shine.   After a successful exhibit last year in the Queen City of The South, black and white photographers Jan Sunday and Banawe Corvera continue pushing their crusade for art and women forward, crossing regions and taking Umbra 2.0 to the people up in Luzon. With a new set of photos and the addition of another female Bisaya artist, Gail Gerriane, Umbra 2. 0 does away with regional boundaries to showcase the power and beauty of the Bisaya woman and artistry through a new exhibit which opened yesterday at Quezon City’s Vetro. “Art is a luxury and responsibility. Whatever we put out for the world to take in from our work is a reflection of ourselves and who we

Web browser as an Art Gallery. You might be wondering why last August that our main homepage www.streetkonect.com wasn't loading the traditional logo. It was replaced by Lea Valle’s photo slides entitled “nutrition facts”. Last January it was replaced also with Ernest Dino’s video art “Queen City”. From the inception of streetkonect we really wanted to use the main homepage not as normal website. Flaunting our logo like a normal blog wasn’t enough. That is why from the start when we bought the domain the blog was addressed as blog.streetkonect.com. We tried to update the homepage every now and again however the team's enthusiasm to refurbish the site eventually tuckered out because lack of proper programming Nine years after the Philippines finally saw a whole lot more technological advancement and the internet became a little bit accessible. Browsers have gained much more power - looking back nine years ago, it was terribly difficult for us to

Post No Bill. Seems like words from new testament, commanding us to be pure and clean. But anyway, who isn’t doing it? Who isn’t putting posters up on the street? From advertisements of a hotel, to a political campaign, religious events, money loan, massage, home service - the examples are unlimited. Before the facebook age, pasting your agenda on the street using posters and stickers used to be one of the easiest and cheapest way to get noticed by the public and despite the power of social media marketing, it remains posting on the street still remains effective today. Considering its effectivity, there’s no reason why artists wouldn’t do the same for their own sake. Posters and stickers gave new aesthetics to artists who were working using the traditional method of tagging graffiti. After all, the medium was a lot faster to spread because of the fact that all the materials could be prepared in the studio before the posting itself. The only disadvantage is that stickers and pos