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"Self Portrait" Oil on canvas 8" x 8" 2020

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"Homage to Maurizio Cattelan's Sculpture, Comedian" Oil on canvas 9" x 12" 2020

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"Head Study of Female Face Blonde" Oil on canvas 6" x 6" 2020

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"Head Study of Female Face Blonde" Oil on canvas 6" x 6" 2020

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"Homage to Leonardo Da Vinci's La belle Ferronnière" Oil on canvas 24"x18" 2020

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"Homage to Leonardo Da Vinci's Lady with an Ermine" Oil on canvas 24"x18" 2020

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"Homage to William-Adolphe Bouguereau's Girl Bouquet" Oil on canvas 36" x 48" 2020

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"Homage to William-Adolphe Bouguereau's - Gabrielle Cot" Oil on canvas 60 " x 48" 2020

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"Not Today Satan!" (Who is like God?) Oil and Epoxy on canvas 48" x 36" 2019

Wrapping/Unwrapping the Divine

I am always fascinated about our culture, despite of being religious are also superstitious, we often say, “May nuno diyan,” or “Magtabi-tabi po” if we are to pass by in a certain street. We also make an offering to these entities if these entities inflict a curse or illness to a certain person. We often feel excited when we hear about demonic possessions, and what happened during demonic possessions. In a secular culture, we are fonder to portray the demonic character in parties and events and much more okay to illustrate demonic characters. Demonic names are also often used in animes and video game characters; we even celebrate the Halloween, with these demonic characters, even though the Halloween came from old English “Hollow Eve.”But isn’t ironic, despite of irreverence, we say “Oh my God!” “Jesus Christ” when in shock or surprise? Or say, “Not Today, Satan!” When we are having or about to have a bad day? Maybe, the culture carved deep in us the positive and negative connotation of these words, but sad to say the culture of looking at the negative sides of events, stories, and people much most interest us.

Luca Giordano, San Michelle, (Saint Michael) portrays the defeat of the rebels. These rebels are formerly angels, and Lucifer led the rebellion against God when God decided to create the first man and women in His likeness and Image. Michael, stood against Satan and asked, “Who is like God?” These two main character names tell us a moral story; they are who they are in their name. In Hebrew means Lucifer means, the “Light Bringer”, and “Morning Star”, and Michael, literally means “Who is like God?” Despite of Lucifer being the first and most beautiful of all the angels, “the star” was defeated but a lowly angel whose confidence is with God. It is one of the favorite stories of religious people, known to secular culture, but now is getting vague, fragmented and too old in our daily lives, but still tell us to have faith in God, that God is all powerful than evil entities, and despite of mainstream secularization of demonic images, an angel named Michael defeated their leader.

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"La Vierge en priere", (Salve Regina, Ora Pro Nobis) Oil and epoxy on Canvas 60" x 48" 2019

Wrapping/Unwrapping the Divine

Years ago, I painted my version of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Immaculate Heart of Mary, but to add some twist, I covered their faces and leave only some elements like their red garment and blue robe, with their burning hearts with thorns and roses to maintain their identity as Jesus and Mary. I am most interested to observe and see how people will interpret my work, and the conservative Catholics started to call me sacrilegious and atheist, but the another twist here is, I am more Catholic than those who called me sacrilegious and atheist. I know my theology and of course, my art. I understand that human by nature is a visual person; we learn through visual things and judge according to what we see and always fail to go in depth of meanings and signs of each situation we live. Catholics love beautiful faces of Jesus and Mary, yet failed to go deeper to understand what is “mercy” and “love”. We love the Lord, according to us yet hate the next neighbor we have.

The idea I have before become my inspiration to paint these two paintings, “"La Vierge en priere", (Salve Regina, Ora Pro Nobis)” and “"Salvador Mundi", (Dominus Eleison)”, an artwork originally painted by Giovanni Battista Salvi da Sassoferrato and Leonardo da Vinci. I just simply add a plastic to my painting and wait and see how my audience will understand my work. Some simply asked why did I add a plastic to my work, since some of the audience is used to see and enjoy these paintings in their original visual representation, some have mixed feelings if my work is sacrilegious or not. Did a painting really tell us a story with a thousand of words, or our minds just understand things the way we wanted to see it? These two paintings partially covered could be interpreted to be unwrapped to enjoy the whole picture, Catholics and alike could interpret my work like uncovering the divine mystery, which is now we enjoy but not in full understanding. It is like the divine, just giving us a glimpse of their reality, or in contrary, people who dislike Christianity could see these as a passé individual in the past that should be covered and let rest their ideas where it belongs. Some people could see my work in a different way and stories. Again, did a painting really tell us a story with a thousand of words, or our minds just understand things the way we wanted to see it? Judge according to our own parameters and see with our own perception?

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"Salvador Mundi", (Dominus Eleison) Oil and epoxy on Canvas 48" x 36" 2019

Wrapping/Unwrapping the Divine

Years ago, I painted my version of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Immaculate Heart of Mary, but to add some twist, I covered their faces and leave only some elements like their red garment and blue robe, with their burning hearts with thorns and roses to maintain their identity as Jesus and Mary. I am most interested to observe and see how people will interpret my work, and the conservative Catholics started to call me sacrilegious and atheist, but the another twist here is, I am more Catholic than those who called me sacrilegious and atheist. I know my theology and of course, my art. I understand that human by nature is a visual person; we learn through visual things and judge according to what we see and always fail to go in depth of meanings and signs of each situation we live. Catholics love beautiful faces of Jesus and Mary, yet failed to go deeper to understand what is “mercy” and “love”. We love the Lord, according to us yet hate the next neighbor we have.

The idea I have before become my inspiration to paint these two paintings, “"La Vierge en priere", (Salve Regina, Ora Pro Nobis)” and “"Salvador Mundi", (Dominus Eleison)”, an artwork originally painted by Giovanni Battista Salvi da Sassoferrato and Leonardo da Vinci. I just simply add a plastic to my painting and wait and see how my audience will understand my work. Some simply asked why did I add a plastic to my work, since some of the audience is used to see and enjoy these paintings in their original visual representation, some have mixed feelings if my work is sacrilegious or not. Did a painting really tell us a story with a thousand of words, or our minds just understand things the way we wanted to see it? These two paintings partially covered could be interpreted to be unwrapped to enjoy the whole picture, Catholics and alike could interpret my work like uncovering the divine mystery, which is now we enjoy but not in full understanding. It is like the divine, just giving us a glimpse of their reality, or in contrary, people who dislike Christianity could see these as a passé individual in the past that should be covered and let rest their ideas where it belongs. Some people could see my work in a different way and stories. Again, did a painting really tell us a story with a thousand of words, or our minds just understand things the way we wanted to see it? Judge according to our own parameters and see with our own perception?

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Memorial of Our Lady of Sorrows, September 15.

"Mater Dolorosa" Oil on canvas 30" x 19" (diameter) 2019

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"Sacred Heart of Jesus" Oil on canvas 12" x 16" 2019

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"Vermeer in Love" Oil on canvas 36" x 48" 2019

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"Feathers" Oil on canvas 12"x16" 2018

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"Annabel Lee" Oil on canvas 24"x36" 2019 (Practice work) "Annabel Lee" BY EDGAR ALLAN POE It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of Annabel Lee; And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me. I was a child and she was a child, In this kingdom by the sea, But we loved with a love that was more than love— I and my Annabel Lee— With a love that the wingèd seraphs of Heaven Coveted her and me. And this was the reason that, long ago, In this kingdom by the sea, A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling My beautiful Annabel Lee; So that her highborn kinsmen came And bore her away from me, To shut her up in a sepulchre In this kingdom by the sea. The angels, not half so happy in Heaven, Went envying her and me— Yes!—that was the reason (as all men know, In this kingdom by the sea) That the wind came out of the cloud by night, Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee. But our love it was stronger by far than the love Of those who were older than we— Of many far wiser than we— And neither the angels in Heaven above Nor the demons down under the sea Can ever dissever my soul from the soul Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; For the moon never beams, without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And the stars never rise, but I feel the bright eyes Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side Of my darling—my darling—my life and my bride, In her sepulchre there by the sea— In her tomb by the sounding sea.

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"Kam" Oil on canvas 48" x 48" 2018 By: Emmanuel Miranda (Emman D'Artist) For Gallery Roberto Year End Show Model poses in the Picture