Creative Confidential

Reflecting Legacies: The Glass Art of Anna Orlina
By Mara Fabella
Between carrying her family's legacy and forging her own artistic path, Anna Orlina's practice is one of harmony…

Tactile trajectories: The curatorial life with Pristine de Leon
By Sean Carballo
"Archive here is not personal, but intimate; it keeps the world close by. The hand is only one among many hands,…

Beyond the line: A profile on Eugenia Alcaide
By Corinne Fernandez Garcia
“It is this emotion that compels, that makes art relatable, that turns…

Catalina Africa charts a shapeshifting path
By Sean Carballo
“The energy of my work comes from the Baler landscape... I am a conduit…

Jana Benitez answers and shares the call of the wild
By Pao Vergara
With a wide range of styles following her childhood entry into the art world,…

Being Kids For Kids: Culture-conscious action toward empowered futures
By The Cartellino Team
"We’re trying to create a world where no matter how different your passions are, everyone should be able…

Further Conversation with Material: Curator’s Talk with Lara Acuin and Con Cabrera 
By Lk Rigor
Speaking with Lk Rigor, curators Lara Acuin and Con Cabrera go into the intricacies of curating, artmaking,…

A decade of Jaime Pacena II’s creative practice: There’s art in all the in-betweens
By James Luigi Tana

A Conversation: Brushing histories, carving space
By Lyra Garcellano and Lec Cruz
In reflections on their personal artistic process, the artists invite readers and viewers of art to engage…

Fotomoto 22 brings us “Home”
By Marz Aglipay
Fotomoto 22 opens up to more photographers for its second edition themed “Home”.

Score the matrix until you cut through: The art of Printmaking for the People
By The Cartellino Team
“Printmaking stands at the front lines of progressive propaganda. It…

Here Today, Gone Tomorrow: Careening on the Conceptual Tailwind of Hae Ryun
By Jose Naval
The story of how an artist found the amalgam for her life through a dream.

Lessons in Love and Lockdown from a Bowl of Las-wa
By Christina Campos
If a bowl of soup could tell a story during one of the most turbulent times in recent history, it's one of…

Behind the Racket: FREE-Lances on the Art Gig Economy
By The Cartellino Team
Is there such a thing as an exclusively professional career in the arts? FREE-Lances’ Renan Laru-an,…

Abstracting a Life in Art
By Stephanie Frondoso
Artist-curator and writer Stephanie Frondoso shares her story on how she found a career in art.

Sam Feleo at a Cellular Pace
By Jose Naval
How Sam Feleo found amicability with slowness.

The Pictorial Key to Manos: Suit of Hands
By The Cartellino Team
Learn the meanings behind the cards, take a step into another domain of art.

Why First Edition?
By The Cartellino Team
Our running thoughts, the beneficiaries, and, possibly, how art can matter.

Ciane Xavier x Modeka: When Space Becomes Headspace
By Jose Naval
If raising the bar is something to be had in the time of a pandemic, this could be it.

Dashiell Manley, Working Between Intention and Diversion
By The Cartellino Team
The multimedia artworks of Dashiell Manley, which have gone and been exhibited…

Seeing through Textiles with Patricia Perez Eustaquio
By The Cartellino Team
In our conversation with the esteemed artist, we learned two things: 1) the reasons behind her fascination…