BLIGHT Exhibit : my artwork contribution.

Thanks to Mdm Alice Guillermo a renowned writer, researcher, art critic and professor had a wonderful speech about the realities of life as an artist in our country as she mentioned that most of this passionate individuals are working class young ones who as usual are struggling to handle their responsibilities and at the same time are building their characters and identity in doing the work that they love. She Highlighted that Creative individuals has a great role in our society cause they are visionaries and creators (which ofcourse is not as simple as just expressing ones thought as a detox yet a warrior that can brave to destroy the old rotten system of whichever is it that is creating this infectious disease as mentioned with our group exhibit concept/theme - BLIGHT), and to understand that progressive art has a process and needs a community to unify in voicing out ones human and spiritual purpose.

LIFE IN A BALL OF YARN - The Artwork I shared during the exhibit.

I chose Yarn and acrylic as my medium, because the yarn itself with its soft texture gives a feeling of warmth and simplicity. and during this time, I just got back in Philippines from singapore where I left my baby photographer job, so many things happened in my personal life that I felt like being psychologically conflicted and all I ever wanted is a feeling of home and warmth and my boyfriend who is a dear vegan artist sid is the one who comforts me during that time, my world revolved around him during those times that’s why two of my mini paintings represents a couple, the pirate man unified by heart to a sleepy headed woman and another one in a cemetery a punk skeleton with a ghost which he fetches from a cemetery and brought with him and the and the big art showing a tree of yarn breaking a wall and having 2 cats play with the yarn fruits, symbolised my union with him cause we used to lock ourselves in our own world yet the tree of yarn has to break the wall to see the other side of light, we used to nurse a kitten we found on the street together yet the kitten died of health issues and it was a heart breaking memory from us… Sid’s character is like a mix of punk, bones and pirate and he likes taking me by the hand to be wherever he may be and I was attracted to the secured feeling he gave me…

So what’s the connection of my personal art with blight exhibit? it’s simple it’s being human seeking warmth, seeking the breakage of boundaries for the sake of truth, needing partnership and affection, the society has to see through that simple matters so that they can build empathy to the poor people, we are all the same in humanity, no divisions on that matter…

The photos of all the artists contribution can be viewed here in my fb page - https://www.facebook.com/amiya.velayo/media_set?set=a.282036878605049.1073741828.100003962183194&type=1

I performed some noise improvisation session with my newly founded band sentient waves together with guitarists: Eric Dy and Peter Mamayson, Here's the video of the Noise expressionist session.