Pinagburnayan

National Artist Fidel Go

Looking into my handy street map and a list of places to go, we trodded along the streets of Vigan to see more of the place. Well upper north of Vigan we stumbled upon Pinagburnayan. And what perfect timing as National Folk Artist, Fidel Antiporda Go, was about to give a demonstration on making a Burnay Jar. Interesting seeing the process, from taking a clay, molding it first, a dash of sand before putting it on a potter’s wheel where it is manually operated by a foot. Shaping it depends on your hands and fingers. After these clay jars are shaped, they are put on fire in a kiln. Though there are many jars being oven-ized, not all are well made. If there are like 100 jars in a dragon shaped kiln only about 10 would be well made.

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Audio High

Just finished this artwork I was doing titled Audio High. Made in Macromedia Freehand. Arggh! I hope that merger doesn’t mess up with Freehand. It’s my fav vector drawing tool and it’s kind of a hassle if they just let go of it or change it radically. Well, let’s see…

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Shell Art Competition

I was deleting pictures from my camera phone and found some pics I failed to post on. The exhibit has passed but I would like to site my observation. I remember in college when we were all required to join this competition. Apologies though as I already forgot the names of the winners and what school are they from.

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