Sharing with you an essay I wrote for my Humanities class. This is originally titled “Preliminary drawing and easel of Filipino National Artist Vicente S. Manansala” As the title indicates, this artwork is just a glimpse that precedes all his other amusing scribbles on his later life dated 1910–1981. It…

Darn it! Everything changed but I like it, at least most of it. It’s like Alice entering through that miniscule doorway leading towards this fantastical world unbeknownst to me before. “This is ludicrously strange”, is all I can mutter to myself way past the checkpoint guarded by these uniformed armed-men…

Remember being that kid when one of your parents told you to eat those bits and pieces of vivid green, orange or yellow cuts of vegetables and you loathe its blandness? The next thing you know you were just forcing your jaw to push those little teeth to grind it…