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Lakan Olivares
The Art and Photography of Prof. Lakan Olivares, and his selfies with lessons on art and history
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Transcendence
2013
Metallic Gel Pen on Illustration board
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Tuff Twins
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CCP solo exhibit WIP selfie
Sitting in my Marikina City garage studio preparing for my Philippine Centennial (1898-1998) solo exhibition “Kasaysayan ng Hinirang” (History of the Chosen) to be held at Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP), in Pasay City, Metro Manila.
My exhibit featured my translations of the Philippine National Flag as well as the revolutionary Katipunan flags into various Filipino themes on culture and history.
The artworks in the photograph are:
- 1998 Anting-anting (Talisman) https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10151058738976404&set=a.82137536403
- 1998 Dahong Panahon (The Leaves of Time) https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10151058739251404&set=a.82137536403 - 1998 Pinagmulan (Origins) https://www.deviantart.com/lakandiwa/art/1999-Pinagmulan-140145604
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Mandala of the First Light
2011
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In the beginning
LOVE created
The Heavens and the Earth
The Earth was without form
And void
And darkness was on the face
Of the Deep
And the Spirit of LOVE
Was hovering
Over the face
Of the Waters
The LOVE said
“Let there be Light”
And there was Light
And LOVE saw the light
That it was good
And LOVE divided the light
From darkness
LOVE call the light DAY
And the darkness LOVE called Night
So the evening
And morning were the first day
Peace . . .
1. Acknowledge
Vibrating in no time
Vibrating in no space
Warping and pulsing
To the cosmic rhythms
Of the celestial strings
Moving . . .
Waving . . .
Clashing . . .
The awakening of time . . .
In the great burst of light . . .
The birth of all in space . . .
Peace . . .
2. Release
We are children of LOVE
We are children of LIGHT
We are children of ONE
Peace . . .
3. Awaken
There is no beginning
There is no end
Just the LIGHT of LOVE
Peace . . .
4. Return
We are in time
We are in space
We are in LOVE
Peace
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Too Maní
January 2024
Barangay Kalubihan, Cebú City
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Balsa bamboo raft selfie
Floating off the White Rock Resort westward along Subic Bay, in Barangay Matain, in the Municipality of Subic, Province of Zambales. For several years my parental clan would spend summer vacations along the public Baloy Beach, which is just 2 kilometers from White Rock in the nearby City of Olongapo.
The resort was named after a larger Rhyolite volcanic stones “island”, in which the original owners built a swimming pool around it. The boulders where hurled to their current location when Mount Pinatubo erupted in the 11th century.
The White Rock Resort began it operations in the 1960s to 1970s, in 1.9-hectare property. But business dropped after the 1991 Mount Pinatubo eruption that blanketed much of the area in volcanic ash, forcing the American forces in the Subic Naval Bay to abandon the area. Taking advantage of the dropping real estate prices, future Chairman of the Greater Subic Bay Tourism Bureau George U. Lorenzana (died 2021) purchased the resort and pumped much needed finances to upgrade the area.
The resort has now been renovated to a fit a more discerning market, and has renamed itself as the Whiterock Beach Hotel + Waterpark. The new Whiterock still retains its beautiful 300-meter beachfront, and now boast more activity centers within its expanded 11 hectare lot.
Will I be able to visit the new Whiterock?
Heaven only knows. . .
This photo was taken circa 1983
PS
A bamboo raft is also called a “balsa” to the Tagálog and a “gaket” by the Bisayan people.
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Sun God
2013
Metallic Gel Pen on Illustration Board
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The Weight of Devotion
January 2024
Barangay Santo Niño, Cebú City
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Chick selfie
Playing around with our pet chick in our home in Cubao, Quezón City.
I believe my brother purchased this chick during the Feast of the Guardian Angels fair at the Ateneo de Manila University, in Quezón City. This would start a yearly tradition of my brother and I buying chicks from the school fair or the nearby Murphy Wet Market and attempting to raise them as pet. However, the chicks would either die early from accidents or by attacks from the neighborhood stray cats.
As of 2023, there have been recorded 200.21 million chickens inventoried by the Philippine Statistics Authority; but that count is just for the listed breeds of sabong (cockfighting), broilers, fryers, roasters, and other meat type chickens in registered farms.
This count does not include the various native breeds kept in homes domestic fowl kept in homes and small unregistered farms; as well as the breeds of junglefowl (Gallus gallus) that have been domesticated of still roam the Philippine forest.
The most common native breeds of chickens are:
- Banaba
- Labuyo
- Parawakan
- Joloanon from Mindanao
- Darag from Panay
- Bolinao from Pangasinan
The breed of pet chickens are most likely that of the White Paraoakan
This photograph was taken circa 1978-1979
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Creation's Passage
"From the silent nothing
Erupts the all of creation
Passing through eons of being
Birth, life and death
All but a blinking of time"
2011
Metallic Gel Pen on Illustration Board
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The Warzone
January 2024
Barangay Sambag, Cebú City
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Musei Vaticani Apollonian ceiling selfie
Looking at the 1784 ceiling artworks of Tommaso Maria Conca (1734–1822) of the Sala delle Muse (Hall of the Muses), at the Musei Vaticani (Vatican Museum), in Rome, Italy.
The Sala delle Muse was planned to be a showcase of the sculptures excavated in 1774 from the Villa of Cassius near Tivoli, Italy. Hence throughout the hall are the statues of the nine Μοῦσαι / Greek muses of Καλλιόπη / Calliope (epic poetry), Κλειώ / Clio (history), Ἐρατώ / Erato (love poetry and lyric poetry), Εὐτέρπη / Euterpe (double-pipes and music), Μελπομένη / Melpomene (tragedy), Πολυύμνια / Polyhymnia (hymns and sacred poetry), Θάλεια / Thalia (comedy and pastoral poetry), Τερψιχόρη / Terpsichore (dance), and Οὐρανία / Urania (astronomy); as well as that of the goddess of wisdom Athena and the Sun god Apollo with a lyre.
At the ceiling, Conca painted the frescos from 1782 to 1787. These paintings featured Apollo and the Muses, as well as ancient Greek poets.
In the center panel is the mythic scene Phrygian youth Marsyas begging Apollo for mercy. According to the tale, Marsyas bragged that he was a better musician that Apollo when playing his double-pipe aulos as compared to the god’s stringed cithara. So the god met the impetuous youth in competition and won. And as punishment for his hubris, Marsyas was strapped to a tree and flayed alive by Apollo.
This picture was taken circa 2015
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Velificatio
2013
Metallic Gel Pen on Illustration Board
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The Wait
January 2024
Barangay Sambag, Cebú City
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₱ακ ϔόϋ! Rακstar ako selfie
Taking a cigarette break during a rehearsal of our band USOK at the Alberto’s Band Studio in the Cubao District of Quezón City.
Devoid of my shirt, I am still wearing my bangles that I have collected from my travels around the country; as well as my shark and boar’s teeth necklace I made from beads and other doodads also from my journeys. The fingers on my hands are also adorned with silver rings of various symbols. And my double prong/hole belt was my father’s belt when he was a student. This photo was taken circa 1994, and sadly the Alberto’s Band Studio has closed down.
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Mandala of the Chronos’ Dream Machine: Meditations on Regression
2012
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In the swirling
Of Time’s passage
To the past
I was
In the present
I am
To the future
I will be
In the face of the I AM
There is none
1. Acknowledge
Return to what was
And remember all
From man to child
Child to infant
Infant to womb
Womb to void
GOD
2. Release
Move in the infinite
Spin to all possibilities
Of creation
And look back . . .
What is past
Forges the present
And foretells the future
To learn and forgive
To love and not forget
The struggle on the path
Renewed . . .
Reborn . . .
3. Awaken
I am
Is not who I was
I am
Is not who I will be
I am
Here and now
And choose
The light of eternity . . .
4. Return
Still the hands move
Telling day and night
A day to be made
By my will
In ONE
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The Simple Joys
January 2024
Barangay Sambag, Cebú City
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