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Allan Balisi’s Waiting Games

By Sean Carballo

"[T]here’s a romantic tinge to the practice of waiting, an ache that renders us momentarily porous, submersible."

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Shedding Light: FotomotoPH on Their Inaugural and Connection through Portraiture

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Printmaking Illustrations: The self-published books and full-colored prints of Keith…

By Marz Aglipay
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Meet Your Instructor: Steph Alvarez on Her Practice of Art

By The Cartellino Team
"With painting still life (in my class), students…

It takes many twos

By Alain Camiling
When it comes to art writing, there's often much to consider; in this estimate, two too many.

Ardent readings

By Carlos Quijon, Jr.
"Ardent readings lead us to the emergence of something exemplary or to finding felicity in forms or articulations…

Art Writing and ‘Stilled Lives’

By Lyra Garcellano
On days we remain trapped, we take notice of what…

Luck at First Strike: Three Winning Filipina Printmakers at International Print…

By Marz Aglipay
“Striking” is a printmaking term, meaning to lay paper on an inked plate to make a mark. It is…

Constructing Myths through Unconfined Cinema

By Isabel Cabal
Cinema is its own instrument and instrumentalist in storytelling. The three films Erwin Romulo arranged reversed…

On the Materiality of Cloth in Dino Gabito's ‘Threads’

By Shireen Co
Gabito’s preoccupation with cloth focuses…

'Connecting and Disconnecting': the Self In and Beyond the Cybernetic Astral Plane

By Carl Lorenz Cervantes
Bizzarro pop-surrealist Ciane Xavier's latest exhibition, 'Connecting and Disconnecting', calls for pause amid…