Masterpiece

I read somewhere that agriculture is also an art, besides being a science. I didn't quite get it until I meet Nong Tiloy, the farmer.

Nong Tiloy considers the land as a wide canvass on which his dream of abundance is being painted. In silence, he tills his field with utmost care so that crops would grow and bear fruits for his family and for the community. He ensures that the crops are arranged in a way that the soil fertility is maintained and enhanced. He is quick to see areas that are prone to erosion and he plants right away madre de cacao to prevent a land slide. When piangaw attacks his upland rice he ignores them at first. When he senses that their presence gets damaging, he sprays them with pesticide made of panyawan, sili kulikot, luy-a, suka and tabako. 

He plants rose, gumamela and many other flowers in between tangkong, lemon grass and other vegetables and fruit trees. Every morning he wakes up early to the call of his hungry chickens. Their number is huge, enough to cover his entire lawn. At the lower portion of his little field, not less than 100 maturing tilapia fish compete to take the feeds broadcasted by his 11-year old son Simon.

While Nang Bilay returns home after washing clothes at the nearby creek with Inday Mely, Nong Tiloy pours steaming corn coffee on five cups on the dining table that holds newly cooked denurado rice, sinugbang bulad, kangkong salad and a bowl of boiled native chicken eggs.

 "Mangaon na ta!" Nong Tiloy calls me to join them.

It’s a hearty meal, incomparable to any meals at the leading fast-food chain in the cities. The meal, dipped in deep conversation about Nong Tiloy's farm and his family does not only feed my stomach, it does to my mind as well.

Now, I like to paint on the same canvass which Nong Tiloy mounts his masterpiece on.

New Mactan Bridge

Ang bag-ong tulay sa Mactan (bag-o kung ikompara sa mas una sa usa ka tulay dili halayo dinhi), dili lang nindot agianan sa mga sakyanan. Nindot usab siya nga talan-awon ilabi na sa silong niini. Dinhi nagponsisok ang taga-Mactan ug ang mga dayo sa isla ilabi na sa sayong buntag ug kagabhion aron mohanggab og hangin gikan sa dagat ug magtan-aw sa daghang tawong magpahangin dinhi.

My paintings (Les Miserables)

Pipila kini sa mga painting nga akong nahimo gikan 2001-2006. Nagkatag kini sila, depende sa lugar nga akong napundohan og dugay-dugay. kining inyong makita karon, mao ni nabilin nga akong natapok sa balay.

Les Miserable ang ulohan sa sikat nga nobela ni Victor Hugo nga naglarawan sa pangandoy sa katawhan sa Pransya alang sa makiangayong pagtagad gikan sa usa ka Monarkiyang sistema sa maong nasod. Ang maong pangandoy miresulta sa 1832 Revolution nga miresulta usab sa paglambo sa sistemang hustisya ug pagtahod sa tawhanong katungod. Gihimoan kini og musical nga gipasundayag sa London, England. Nindot ang libro apan mas makalingaw ang musical. Usa sa dili nako malimtan nga nasuroyan sa among trip sa UK niadtong summer sa 1994.