December 2010 - Montalut

THANK YOU show for my 30th, yay!

Had my first one-man show at the twins’ bar in San Juan as a BIG THANK YOU for the 30 years that were, and for the 30,40,50,or more that will be 🙂

Was a night of many surprises, including many GOHs (guests of honor) who drove/flew in from all over. Had a good starstruck moment when Tito Robert walked in with Hermes Alegre, one of my all-time favorite Filipino painters!

So great to be 30–I say THANK YOU, and everyone says THANK YOU back! Woohoo!!

I LOVE YOU, friends and family
xoxo

I like 30, I feel 30 🙂

December 15, 2010, Wednesday
Bardeli’s, San Juan

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WORKS SHOWN:
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Dead star
Acrylic on paper

He who waits for us is just like us.
Acrylic on paper

“Every cry is an unknotting.”
Acrylic on paper
*Quote by Crisi

We are just passing through.
Acrylic on canvas

El Nido

Acrylic on paper

Don’t be amazed by the light of your teacher, there is more.
Gouache on paper

Meditation
Gouache on paper

Oh Thou I!
Gouache on paper

Embrace
Gouache on paper

Mom and Dad
Acrylic on canvas

Kuy
Acrylic on paper

Jon
Acrylic on paper

Sammy
Acrylic on paper

Self-portrait
Acrylic on canvas

Pete bahu, 2003
Phil bahu, 2003
Oil pastel on paper

Jae, 2010
Oil pastel on wood

Pachi, 2010
Oil pastel on wood

xxoo, 2010
Acrylic on paper

xoxo, 2009
Oil on canvas

Newlyweds, 2009
Oil on canvas

Tree, 2003
Oil on canvas

Falls, 2009
Oil on canvas

Sunset, 2003
Oil on canvas

Einstein’s boat, 2003
Pastel on paper

Fish series, 2002-2010

More pics of the thanksgiving show on facebook.

Other pics at gabisuncultured.blogpspot from my friend Gab, who said: “My friend celebrated her birthday with her first one-woman exhibit. And it wasn’t in an art gallery… it was in a bar. Kewl.”

Kewl na kewl! Salamat!

no birthday blues this year

“He who waits for us is just like us.”
Acrylic on Paper, December 2010

Happy to say there are no birthday blues this year, I’ve crossed out about 22 items on my 30 before 30 list, and am really in a good place now. The sadness in the heart, so poignant a year ago, has passed:

Written on December 10, 2009, and sent into the future (now the present) through FutureMe.org.
Dear FutureMe,
bday blues again, this time the blues are more glaring, the cut is deeper..
been texting friends how this kind of sadness is new to me–i feel fear again, or for the first time..a lonely, emptying fear..
is this what love lost does to you?
i have bold plans to be in new york by may.. wonder where that yellow brick road will lead me.. openness, a healthy sense of self-identity, and a decisiveness to say no to things that have less relevance… am i ready for battle? i feel so sensitive, bagong skin, baby skin..tender to the touch and even to light…
what am i shying away from? love? pain? they go together right?
happy birthday jo, be well, be happy. you’ll be 30 soon. check your 30 before 30 list… !
hugs,
oh some sadness in the heart!

New York went by and well, went by. Palawan also went by, and is still lingering. Maybe for a much longer time. Who’s to say? Possibilities are endless. 🙂

All in all, such a blessing 2010 has been, for all its joys and pains.

Holding a BIG THANK YOU show on my birthday, and the work above is one of the few that have come out since Palawan. Deep breaths and maybe chugs of beer as my works go on their first ever public display in 3 days…!

Will post pics of the rest after. 🙂