photo gallery by lory medina
Bamboo Container with the Mangyan or Palawan script.
The Kasaysayan book, vol. 2, "Early Filipinos," page 220, says:
"Script written on a bamboo container, still a contemporary
practice among Mangyans and Pala'wans."The artist incorporates script as a way to reclaim her culture and make alive a way of writing that is at risk of extinction.
Painting (titled "Sketched in Memory 1") is less recognizable than "Sketched in Memory 2." Loreta is experimenting with "surface," that is, creating a surface that is tactile, a departure from her Oriental training of smooth surface. She's learned that to enrich surface, she has to do away with flatness as much as possible. She works towards multi-layering and away from uni-dimensionality, much the way writers ply on layers in their text.
Painting (titled "Sketched in Memory 2") presents a slightly more traditional view of the Mangyan or Palawan script.© Lory Medina
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