Lamberto Acyatan
Land scape
CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW
Let ’ s go back to the river analogy . Memory and emotion intertwine like water molecules that take ephemeral shapes . The bluntness or non-sharpness represents a non-final state . It is an attempt to capture fluidity . Again , that may sound paradoxical but what is not ?
A songwriter would find my style as something familiar . Like you know the chords and possible melodies to combine . These are the basic tools and materials . The words are like the colors that you mix and match to arrive at something pleasant or disturbing - depending on what you wish to convey . Along the way , a muse takes over and I let go . Sometimes I wrestle with the muse with my pre-conceived notions and arrive at a happy compromise . Choosing my subjects depends on certain events or emotional experiences that beg my consciousness to take form on the material plane . For commissioned work , I play around the client ’ s desired result or some specific objects to appear . I can be pliant like my materials .
I explore and enjoy the unfamiliar . If I simply followed the footsteps of the artists in my hometown , I would have been known as another woodcarver . Of course , it ’ s not a bad thing but I thought that there must be something beyond wood for me . Epoxy may have been exploited by other artists but maybe not in the way that I do - especially in large scales that I got recognized for by the art community . I consider myself as an ordinary man and epoxy as an ordinary material but something extraordinary can be achieved with patience and imagination .
Surreal Mindanao is my tribute to my adoptive home that is rich with ancient tales and cultural beliefs that 300 years of Spanish rule , 50 years of American