FRESH out of College of Fine Arts and Design (CFAD), four Thomasians held their first major group exhibit, Urban Kaleidoscope, at the Fashion Art Gallery in Kamuning, Quezon City, from May 25 to June 15.
“Every one of us comes across things that we may not get,” CFAD alumna Lesley Lim told the Varsitarian. “And that’s what our pieces wanted to point out—each of us must be prepared for things that may happen.”
Lim’s “Cuckoo Clock” speaks of the artist’s attitude about the significance of time. Each of the bird’s call is equal to a human heartbeat, the painting seems to say.
In the watercolor “Undersea,” Lim presents life’s unexpected encounters through the image of a woman amid the haze of the intricate objects beneath the water. “Life is a wonderful gift, we must always remember,” Lim said. “That’s why every minute, every hour, and every day should be important for us, too.”
Among Julius Sebastian’s “Isolation” collection is a huge painting of a child grasping an ice cream, titled “When will happily ever after begin?”
“As we grow older, we tend to demand for bigger dreams, but we can not get all of them. The painting shows that as we grow older, there are some dreams that are not meant for us and we just have to accept it,” Sebastian said.
Gissele Bautista presented futuristic depictions of robots. Her “Crash!,” “Boom!,” and “Blam!,” showed white robots battling with green monsters, which the artist said resembled her own inner struggles.
Derek Tumala’s “Futureopolis: Building Tomorrow’s Dreams Since Yesterday” evoked happiness and peace, heightened by the generous use of yellow. The word “zipzap” across the murals stood out for the drastic transition from the present day to the future.
“I always had a vision of what will happen in the future, where everything is happy, and my art shows it,” Tumala said. Rieze Rose T. Calbay
