Gift Barong Art Show

So last night, (Sat 04.07.07) i attended the screening of the movie; "The Gift of Barong." PYC V helped out with the planning and we were encharge of the entertainment that took place right before the show. PYC members did a fashion show displaying various Filipino culture apparel and did the "Pandango sa Ilaw" dance. 2 PYC musical artist performed, John Macapinlac and Josh (forgot his last name). Then Uncle MeL, Gandmaster Villasin and the other members of the Arnis group did their exhibition of Balintawak Arnis

the movie was well produced and was a pleasure to watch. it's a very enlightening story of two Filipino surfers that grew up here in America. Jon Vilar and Dan Moreno are the main subjects in the film. One day Dan Moreno is asked to go to a party with his mother and she hands him a barong to try on. When he puts it on and looks at himself in the mirror, he finally realizes who he truly was. Him and John plan a trip to the Philippines to explore the best surfing hotspots, as well as learning about the origin of their identity

The movie is hella inspiring and will make you recheck your identity, especially if you're a Filipino who's living here in the states. I guarantee this movie will also make you wanna surf, haha forreals..


So out in the lobby where we screened the movie. we had a small Art exhibition that we set up. The art was comprised of a collective of young Vallejo Filipino Artists.
and here is their stuff:

(please pardon the blurriness of my unsteady hand.)
(click on photos to enlarge)

This is Adrian David and his piece. Lately he's been producing a lot of art for Veterano Memorial events and is part of the Vallejo artist collective "Creatures of the Mind".



This is Adrian's cousin Robin David and her two pieces. She and her cousin paint together and also she does a lot of art in relation to Filipino culture, or issues like the Veteranos. She managed to sell her original piece on the right last night at the event. She is the 2nd member of "Creatures of the Mind"

J.R. is the 3rd member of "Creatures of the Mind" and works with the David's on a number of collaboration pieces. In this piece he flips his signature character along with the Filipino flag.
J.R. makes custom shirts by using just acrylic paint and brush and sells them.






These shoes were custom painted by John Macapinlac. He's currently a student at Hogan High and has been painting shoes for almost a year or two. He originally started painting just for himself but has recently got a number of customers to pay him to do custom painted designs on their shoes.




This is the piece that i did and put on display also for the show last night. It's titled "Everlasting Moonlight among the Staind Psyche", which is basically a play on the movie title "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind." This piece took me about 2 weeks to finish. I started off by sketching my design on the canvas and it took me awhile because there were times when i couldn't figure out what to put. It's my very first painting so i wasn't sure how i was gonna do it. I was on spring break fortunately, because if i wasn't i probably wouldn't have had it done by the weekend. I started at the beginning of the week and finished it the day of on SAT. overall im pretty satisfied with it for it being my very first painting that i spent some real effort on. I used acrylic and about 6 different brushed and retouch it constantly (hella perfectionist and shit.)

id explain what it means. but that would take up a whole other blog....so ill save that for later... haha.


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