BULALO at PINIKPIKAN *** Painting Details

Hi everyone, this is my most recent mixed media diptych painting wherein I incorporated textures, real animal bones and found objects. Included in this video is the explanation of my subject, the concept is to interact with the viewer and show every detail of my work. The painting was among the works included at the ‘nUancEs', University of the East College of Fine Arts Alumni Exhibition, August 6 to September 6, 2022 at Balai Maria, Intramuros, Manila, Philippines.
“Bulalo at Pinikpikan”
Mixed Media
height: 4 feet
width: 3 feet
thickness: 3 inches
Bulalo and Pinikpikan are Filipino delicacies. Bulalo is a slow cooked soup dish of beef and bone marrows while Pinikpikan is a native chicken soup in the Cordillera Region of which the live chicken is first beaten with stick in order for its blood to coagulate before removing its feathers, partially roasting it which add a distinct flavor to the dish. Thus it earned it’s English name, “killing me softly”.
The painting alludes to such, making it as an illustration to our dying world caused by environmental degradation. We experience climate change because of too much carbon and other greenhouse gases being emitted to our atmosphere and destroying the ozone layer, our very shield from the sun’s deadly radiation. Too much cow production due to the high demand on beef meat consumption is just among the many factors we degrade Mother Earth. In the name of progress, instead of planting (reforestation), we cut too much trees (deforestation) that produces oxygen and filters carbon gases. It seems like we are slowly killing our very own planet to our own demise.
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Music Background Credits:
“Forest Lullabye” by Asher Fulero
“March of the Hares” by Nathan Moore
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