"PINTA-LARA"
In homage to the Waray Tikog Mat
The TACLOBAN INTEGRATED VISUAL ARTS art group will mount "Pinta-Lara", a mixed media painting, 3d artwork exhibit at the Leyte Park Hotel Lobby on May 19, 2008. Opening will be at 4pm
This exhibit hopes to exemplarize the use of the Waray Tikog Banig as an Art form. This exhibit ensues after the TATU Symposium and Contest that will be held in the previous day. All these events are in celebration of the National Heritage Month.
Article for Press Release:
A "Tikog" Quest: Penelope Ravels and Unravels..
Life as an Artist in Tacloban is likened to a "Tikog" quest, Every year, month, day is a tapestry of joys, travails, apprehensions and anticipations..(maybe I'm just too much of a "feeling" type...always in an emo strain). From my coffee to my melatonin I handle the world like a natural weaver of sorts..the weaving, the unravelling, like Penelope in her patience for the King of Ithaca...and as a local weaver, "Tikog" is a strand..er..strain...
"Tikog" (Fimbrystyllis Milliacaea) is a type of wild grass that grows in rice fields in between harvests. It is best for bags, placemats, floor mats and wall decorations, First, the tikog is harvested and dried well during the summer months to retain their natural light color. It is then pounded and flattened and cut to a specific uniform width about 1/4 inch before it gets to the weavers. The weavers do their work at night or in the early hours of the morning for the woven mats to retain their shape. Humidity also affects the color, and causes the tikog warp. Thus, it takes a weaver at least a week to complete a single mat"
In homage to the Waray Tikog Mat
The TACLOBAN INTEGRATED VISUAL ARTS art group will mount "Pinta-Lara", a mixed media painting, 3d artwork exhibit at the Leyte Park Hotel Lobby on May 19, 2008. Opening will be at 4pm
This exhibit hopes to exemplarize the use of the Waray Tikog Banig as an Art form. This exhibit ensues after the TATU Symposium and Contest that will be held in the previous day. All these events are in celebration of the National Heritage Month.
Article for Press Release:
A "Tikog" Quest: Penelope Ravels and Unravels..
Life as an Artist in Tacloban is likened to a "Tikog" quest, Every year, month, day is a tapestry of joys, travails, apprehensions and anticipations..(maybe I'm just too much of a "feeling" type...always in an emo strain). From my coffee to my melatonin I handle the world like a natural weaver of sorts..the weaving, the unravelling, like Penelope in her patience for the King of Ithaca...and as a local weaver, "Tikog" is a strand..er..strain...
"Tikog" (Fimbrystyllis Milliacaea) is a type of wild grass that grows in rice fields in between harvests. It is best for bags, placemats, floor mats and wall decorations, First, the tikog is harvested and dried well during the summer months to retain their natural light color. It is then pounded and flattened and cut to a specific uniform width about 1/4 inch before it gets to the weavers. The weavers do their work at night or in the early hours of the morning for the woven mats to retain their shape. Humidity also affects the color, and causes the tikog warp. Thus, it takes a weaver at least a week to complete a single mat"
...Just a little info from the slip of paper enclosed in my tikog passport holder given to me as a token by the local Department of Tourism. Indeed, I have grown in this City as perennial as the grass, moored with the splendor of being, pounded and flattened by ancient folkways to be woven to the tapestry of a Leytena artist...Each day is a loom of work, leisure and conviviality..the joy of creating and the pathos of deconstructing...Sometimes we are burdened by an idea, carrying all the while within you..waiting for a place or time of Birth...But when it is out on this world, I worry if it's accepted or not..so I succumb to the neurosis of humanity...
..Indeed, may one be a Weaver in Tacloban City, an artist..an artisan...whatever the case may be, but a simple fact is held in the sack of plain Truth..all the weaver wants to do is to Express...
The Tacloban Integrated Visual Artists will once again mount an annual exhibit: "Pinta-Lara" a Banig mixed media art exhibit. This exhibit hopes to exemplarize the use of the Waray Tikog Banig as an Art form. This exhibit ensues after the TATU Symposium and Henna Tattooing Contest that will be held in the previous day. All these events are in celebration of the National Heritage Month. Hope you could come and view the event on May 19, 2008 at the Leyte Park Hotel. The opening will be at 4 o'clock in the afternoon...
Dulz Cuna
Earth Day, April 22, 2008
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