Tag: watercolor
‘Typing’ (2016)
Going through my archives, one folder, one sketchbook, one box at a time. Here’s one of my favourites. The colours turned out exactly how I imagined them to be. I can’t remember what paper I used for this one but it held pigment so well (or maybe it’s the quality of paint I used). I…
A telegram: smoke
The neighbouring volcano is awakening. At last, says Old Pinatubo to its young mentee, but you do not do it like me; like I did, had done. intense, all-consuming unlike you, a trap: covering house by house with smog like how you would boil a frog slowly filling in each nostrilwith every piece of your…
Subic in Luisita, or How Time Goes Inside a Pick-up Truck
Time these days feel more compressed than ‘single-existent’. Rather than there being just a single point—the present—in time at a time, it feels as if there are several (sometimes, countless too many) different points intersecting, forming one amalgamated circle at any given moment. This moment where it feels as though one place is of more…
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[in the in] Between
. the sun met the moon at the calculated hour the detailed minutes of their conference were provided and, as follows: (now at this point, you, reader, imagine what the two celestial bodies might say to the other in this meeting. fully visualize the burning ball that is the Sun face-to-face with the rocky cold…