#bren bataclan

[whatcircleofhellaretheygoingto]

this drawing by bren bataclan

Which circle of hell are they going to?

Limbo

Lust

Gluttony

Greed

Wrath

Heresy

Violence

Fraud

Treachery

Voting ended onOct 23, 2024

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This artist wants to make you smile

Bren Bataclan is a Filipino American artist who first came to the US when he was 12 years old. Now, he's a professional artist who shares his immigrant experience through his paintings. He also gives his paintings away to make people smile.

Bataclan was born in the Philippines and moved to the United States with his family in 1981. He was 12 years old when they arrived, and together they all settled in Daly City. That's a section of San Francisco with a large Filipino population. The excitement of their arrival is depicted in Bataclan's painting "Daly City, Our New Home."

Through the exhibt, which is called "Kulap: New Works by Bren Bataclan," the artist portrays and shares his immigrant experience.

Kulap means "fog" in Bataclan's native Tagalog. And as the exhibit states: The "fog encompasses the literal fog of the coastal hills, the cultural fog of a new immigrant's surroundings, and the fog of confusion and anxiety prompted by recent anti-immigrant rhetoric ..."