IRREALITIES
(pen and ink on canvas)
(Philippine Daily Inquirer Lifestyle / Visual Arts / monday 13 December 1999)

The series consist of nine large works in pen and ink on canvas. The exhibit is a visual essay on reality versus illusion, with contemporary subthemes: conservative religiosity, feminism, environmental degradation, social iniquity, etc. The concept behind the images is the television which, according to the artist, "can make the unnatural, natural - and vice versa." On view November 21 to December 22 at the Hiraya Gallery.