HOW TO BE A LIGHTHOUSE (for Sid Gomez Hildawa)

April 7th, 2008 – 7:06 am
Tagged as: Art, Cinema

(version 1.2.1, with pictures + an expanded conclusion. With thanks to Fatima Lasay for comments leading to these revisions)

“For ten years, Sid was my lighthouse. Now he is gone.”
I wanted to leave it at that, if at all. Sid was a very private man, you see, and now more than ever, I felt the need […]

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ON HERESY AND FAITH: A Juan Luna Primer

March 28th, 2007 – 6:48 am
Tagged as: Art

BluPrint Magazine, Nov 2002

The magazine commissioned this essay at the height of the Parisian Life scandal, during the painting’s “extended stay” at the Bureau of Customs. to put things mildly, it was hell getting the interviews. GSIS Museum Director Eric Zerrudo even had to meet me incognito (unshaven, and in house clothes!), in some roach-infested […]

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