Teleportation
Posted on January 31, 2012 by Hannah
This is a footage of Viaje Cabina, a teleportation device out of an unfinished closet, an unfinished painting and a newly acquired scarf. My friend Rovi , tried Vivi (its Nickname) for the first time last Sunday after a day of merriment (We went antique hunting). It still is a work in progress, it can only go as far as Project 6 which is only a few miles away from my house. Someday I’ll perfect the device and travel to places outside Quezon City or Philippines or Asia or even the world and visit my soul mate wherever you may be. haha sad. The universe has a funny way of mocking me by making it difficult to be with the person/alien by limiting my travelling options through aeroplanes. pffft. So here we are, scheming for another way.
Faux intellectual
Posted on January 16, 2012 by Hannah
I’ve been attending a number of formal weddings lately and finally put to action this project I’ve been wanting to do ever since I discovered this beautiful clutch a year ago. Since I wouldn’t shell out that kind of money for an original clutch by Olympia Le Tan, thought of creating my own version of the clutch with this old leather bound encyclopedia i found in booksale.
I’m quite pleased with the results! I still have to fine tune the process when i make another one.
Old and New
Posted on January 8, 2012 by Hannah
I was preparing the photos I’d post here of the holidays spent quietly in our family’s compound in the province while mindlessly watching the pilot episode of F.R.I.E.N.D.S. where Ross agonize being newly divorce at age 26 and it dawned on me that I saw this episode when I was 10 and now I’m the same age as the characters. Nostalgia came rushing in while looking at photos of the holidays with cousins I grew up with who now have their own families and baby cousins are all turning into tweens. Every single year i don’t know why I bother commenting on how tall they’re all getting. I also gave our grandparents’ old abandoned (almost dilapidated) house a visit and the current state of the once glorious house and my lola’s garden where we spent most of the family gatherings a decade and a half ago magnifies how life really is short and we just slip into our present selves without realizing it.
When i was 10 I couldn’t wait to be an adult and it seems 26 is far out future like how 80s movies depict the 2000s the utlra modern civilization with flying cars and hologram phones. Alas it’s 2012 already and I still feel like there’s something I ought to be when I turn this and that age. But at this point I’m relishing this time of my life. Taking my sweet time to realize my hopes and dreams and living in the present. 
Happy 2012 everyone! As a little tribute to the new year ahead my cousins,nieces and nephews spontaneously worked on this wall art project in the family compound celebrating our family name.
An Update
Posted on December 15, 2011 by Hannah
I’m alive! I have no excuse for being absent in this blog except that I find it difficult to write anything substantial the past few months.
2012 will be different though. My good friend Wiji – an illustrator,tattoo artist extraordinaire and also a close friend who I met during my active blogging days in Livejournal 4 years ago, assumed the role of blogging nagger, so I would update this journal from time to time and vice versa to her.
I’ve just been working hard that’s all. Here are the “work” I speak of.
This is an animated video about a Volunteering Conference produced by a studio based in London – Paperboat Creative. I supplied illustrations for this which you can watch here.
After that, I think around August. Mark commissioned me to work on the illustrations for an infommercial for PLDT. Here are some screencaps from the video and various lady puppets that they animated which i found amusing.
Then last November I designed the exhibit of Manikako for PETA’s awareness campaign for Child Protection Law entitled “Pagmasdan ang Kabataan.” Gabie Osorio’s works of delight was the main feature of this show. Including some artist dolls from our Podium exhibition 3 years back.
Such colorful works! Ok.. that’s it.. that was pretty fun.. I hope i don’t have to drag myself to update this thing the next time around
Oh and P.S.
I’m also updating my website! FINALLY!
MISSY BON BON
Posted on June 29, 2011 by Hannah
Photography by Rene Araneta
I just realized I’ve forgotten about this project from last year entirely. It seriously didn’t exist in my head until a few moments ago during a conference call when the client sent a visual reference that reminded me of this job. The talented Architect Edwin Uy (whose work i admired prior to finding out he designed it) invited me to work on the wall illustrations for Missy Bon Bon – a newly launched breadshop franchise in Cagayan city, Philippines last year. I was based in Saigon when I worked on this and I haven’t been able to visit the actual bakeshop yet since it’s far from Manila. Apparently these photos has been sitting in my inbox since April of last year and I only saw it now! I guess I was busy moving houses at that time so it wasn’t really my top priority or perhaps riding motorbikes everyday gives permanent brain damage. eheh..
I also found my initial studies from my email correspondence with Edwin.
It evolved to this. I like the initial direction better but then again the final work is more happy and warm which was in line with brand’s identity.
aww, now i’m craving for pastries.. yep – see what i did just there, subliminal manipulation… nuninuni..
The Making of the Ghost in the Machine
Posted on June 20, 2011 by Hannah
Hmm where to begin? I’ll try my best to recreate the experience here cause it really was a memorable one. Please bear with me. It has been almost two months now since this show opened, so i hope i didn’t miss anything.
On May 3, Liongoren Gallery opened it’s doors with “The Ghost in the Machine” exhibition. It’s ironic that I’m only posting about it now since we’re already wrapping up the show and obviously I’m just being sentimental. I guess i’ve grown attached to the artworks since I lived with them for over a month now.. eep x___x . This exhibit is the brain(heart)child of Goldie Poblador. Also the very first show I was closely involved with in my parents’ gallery, i played the role of exhibit designer/coordinator, which is something new and yet strangely familiar to me (not to sound pretentious or anything). It all began back in 2009 when i approached Goldie about doing an exhibition in our gallery. It was during this time when I was just about to finish my Interior design course and simultaneously supervising the renovations in the gallery while finalizing my decision about working Vietnam. There was so much changes happening in my life that it was a wonderful break when Goldie saw the space I redesigned and agreed to do a show! I really admired Goldie’s installation work from her thesis exhibit and the preceding installations she worked on after that and you can’t imagine how excited I was with what she’ll come up with in our gallery space.
A year and a handful of email correspondence later “The Ghost in the Machine” was born and subsequently conceived a special tribute performance art “Flight of the Primal Being” by our friends Vinty Lava, Denise Castillo and Martin De Mesa. I didn’t really know Goldie well aside from being team mates in bowling (Team Burton) and our spaghetti binging sessions in college but now i admire Goldie not only for the work she does but also for her heart. It was really great working with a sincere artist such as herself. I’m not very articulate so I’ll let the photos and video speak for itself. Enjoy!
December 2010 : My first visit at her studio/house
Goldie demonstrating how she creates her delicate glass sculptures. Look..
January 2011: Trip to Anggono
Goldie and I headed to Anggono to check out the progress of her works which was being polished by Mang Rading the framer and Mang Charlie the cement sculptor.
originally the sculptures look like this. That’s Charlie on the far right talking to Goldie.
Since Antipolo was on the way, we visited my dad for awhile… I just had to make a little tribute since it was father’s day yesterday and this photo is so pleasant to look at. (/segue)
Late April 2011: Day 1 Installation
During the 1st Day of installation, the two main pieces were delivered from Angono by Mang Charlie’s battalion of assistants.
1st the “Bird Goddess”
and then came “Goddess of the Now”
Day 2
Day 3
The next day, I saw this little creature resting in one of Godlie’s cement artworks.
This is IC – the artist/boyfriend/curator extraordinaire of Goldie’s show. We borrowed him for a while from Ateneo gallery.
I asked Goldie to make a hand made Title board and look at what she came up with – photo of the work in progress.
Goldie and IC Installing the title board.
TARAN! It’s all done! Thanks to my brother for taking Photos of the space.
The last two photos are by Erik Liongoren. To see more of this exhibit go here.
Flight of the Primal Being
We shot Martin the talented performance artist in our studio with the help of my dear friends Digo and Jj with the direction of Denise Castillo the video artist.
Vinty Lava the one who created music for the Flight of the Primal Being talking to IC, in one of our brainstorming sessions.
May 3 2011: The opening
AA little incense ceremony before the opening time.
The crowd.
Fine arts friends reunited! Friday and Denise the foxy ladies on the right are responsible for the write up of the exhibit press release and video art of Flight of the Primal being.
That’s Pog with stoked Goldie.. Pog wrote the beautiful wall notes you see above. Which you can read here.
It was such a long day, but it was beautiful.
Goldie in her element – lotus position during the late hours of the night.
Pirata Cat and Manikako at ToyCon 2011
Posted on June 16, 2011 by Hannah
Yey! It’s June! it’s the time of the year again for ToyCon which would only mean Manikako (a non-profit organization that sustains free doll making workshops for under-priviledge children also known as that booth with weird people pricking needles on voodoo dolls) will have a booth yet again in the annual toy fair! I can’t believe it’s been 5 years since our first booth in this decade old ToyCon and we’re still alive and kicking! Yehey.. I’m so happy to be back and helping our organization that all started in this toy conference back in 2007, before i start being sappy and sentimental let me just tell you a quick story about Pirata Cat!
Incidentally, Pirata Cat and I had Matching scarves when i took this photo last week…hihi. He’s my favorite Manikako creation only because he’s my first and i think i got lucky finding the right colors in the stash of donated scrap materials while assisting head seamstress Gabie in a Manikako workshop funded by our very first TOYCON booth for an orphanage in South of Manila back in 2007. Here’s the incriminating evidence of that time and my not-so-wasted youth : ) He’s almost 5 years old now can you imagine? Pirata cat hangs out on this sail boat which I got from Vietnam, docked beside my window sill in my home office, greeting me every morning!
Anyway, Pirata cat told me to show you the TOYCON map in case you get lost on Saturday or Sunday : ) See you guys there!
