Two minutes of a Night during midday

On 2014 during a residency, I would make studies, even produce artworks, in a coin-operated laundry shop while having a slice of a cake and a cold can of coffee. I will do my laundry at midnight so I can have it all for my self, some times friends would come over and help me with cutting stickers and sorting materials, or just hangout by the canal and smoke and watch passers-by. It was a way to meet up with the requirement of coming up with an exhibition and the time i had at that moment (the residency was for 3 months and it's not because time is limited, but I wasn't able to edit down the number of works I would like to present and just went with it even with the knowledge of the heavy labour involved). 

"Don't wash your dirty laundry in public." 

- I have been told once by a gallery during a portfolio presentation because I was asked to tell something about a piece I presented and told them my truth. I asked them if it was a wrong thing to do, they said it wasn't a wrong, it's just better to leave space for the viewer to wonder. I was confused, they asked...

I received a message one Friday a little after noon that I have a pop-up solo show in their laundry area, it was their first exhibition in their laundry area gallery. I was touched for him to share to public what he would keep in private.

                    2A balcony gallery: ZEUS BASCON: Colours of mourning 

                                                                                            August 28, 2020 / 12:50pm to 12:52pm

1 Installation view

2 Entities # 38 (inverted)
   C-print on glossy photo paper
   with sparkle lamination
   5 x 6.667 inches (5R)
   2014-2019

3 Dead Mask: Xyrus Diocares (b.1979), last seen on July 2, 2016
   Acrylic paint, alcohol ink, silver marker, foil tape on tarpaulin;
   vinyl stickers and paper cut-outs in plastic case.
   8.75 x 12.625 inches
   2016

4 Dead Mask: Diomedes "Lucio" Sigue (b.1982), shot dead on October 10, 2016
   Acrylic paint, alcohol ink, glow-in-the-dark stickers on tarpaulin, paper
   cut-outs in plastic case, and grommets
   8.75 x 12.625 inches
   2016

   

These were the first Dead Masks i created for an exhibition curated by Franchesca Co in Kaida Contemporary in 2016 titled Strange Loop, which presented art works in connection to a specific location on a map of NCR. 2016 was also the year the government conducted drug-related killings. Before sending the last piece to Harvey, I got concerned with the title I chose for the works, as to highlight information and real accounts of violence that happened to Lucio (a neighbor) and Xyrus (a relative). Entities is a series of images applied with several filters, transforming the mundane to the otherworldly. Magic Hour, an exhibition of this series in Timog Coffee, Biñan Laguna in 2017 attempted to present a comparison of seeing images on screen and in actual, by differentiating both experiences utilising sparkled lamination. The purchase of these photographs were made early 2019. And it's interesting to observe how the images in these photographs seems to react on the Dead Mask pieces. One is in shock; another a fire mounted in reverse, which in symbols can be defined as control.

5 Entities # 11
C-print on glossy photo paper
with sparkle lamination
5 x 6.935 inches (5R)
2014-2019

Initiated by / images courtesy of Harvey Vasquez. Thank you very much Harvey!

Charged

Saturnino Basilla #15: Medium
A selection of drawings, events, musings,
observations of the odd and otherworldly
36 b/w, color pages
14 × 21.6 × 0.3 cm
Edition of 60 stamped and numbered

Featuring some of my drawings from visual journals of 2011-2016.

This was my first zine thanks to Allan Balisi and Dina Gadia

for designing the zine from the variety of paper used,

particularly the black on black print for the cover!

Printed in Manila, December 2016.

First released at BLTX: Turning it up to eleven in Manila!

at Ilyong's, Kalantiaw, Proj.4, Cubao, QC on 2016

Flight to the Moon

The night of many moons and many stars (Pale Moon), 2016
Foil tape, nail polish, permanent marker and vinyl sticker on 7 x 7 inches panel

image sourced from Blanc Gallery

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along with the submitted piece, i was able to do 2 more works:

Yellow Bird, 2016

Mixed media on wood mounted on 7 x 7 inches board

Orange Bird, 2017

Acrylic paint, cigarette ashes and permanent marker on 7 x 7 inches acrylic panel

(Sold)

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Ati-Atihan

1/17/2016

I wasn't able to participate in the street dance due to part-time job schedule.But i proposed a shirt design to be produced for the barangay festival, I tried but it didn't get through the officials.

1/15/2017

 I was able to make 2 new costumes (yellow and black)

 

1/22/2017

after the barangay fiesta, there's another event where different ati-atihan groups from various barangays and towns gather for a parade starting at the town church.

the morning was heavy as one of our members wass in grave condition,

his father made a deal with to sto. nino: 

that he will not drink alcohol for the day in order to save his son's life.

the father went home drunk...

a week later, his son died.

for Jolly

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