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Slow Sunday: what are you looking at today?
A recurring thread for Sundays. No agenda, no theme. Just share one thing you're looking at right now — a painting on your wall, a page in a book, a view from your window, a photograph you took this morning.
The only rule: describe what you see, not what you think about it. Seeing first, thinking later.
I'll start. I'm looking at a small watercolor sketch my grandmother made of our house in Quezon City, sometime in the 1960s. The proportions are wrong — the mango tree is bigger than the house — but somehow that makes it more true.
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Haruko Mendoza6d
I'm looking at rain on the window of my Manila studio. Each drop catches the neon sign across the street differently. It's like a Pointillist painting that keeps repainting itself.
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Rafael Soriano6d
The underside of my fishing boat, pulled up on the beach for repairs. The hull is covered in barnacles and algae — a painting the sea made over six months. I almost don't want to scrape it off.
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Pilar Aguirre5d
A spool of indigo-dyed thread, unwinding. The color shifts from almost black at the core to pale blue at the outer edge where sunlight has faded it. Six months of afternoons, recorded in thread.
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Ben Legaspi5d
My hands. They're covered in rust stains and small cuts from yesterday's welding. My wife says my hands are the most honest sculpture I've ever made.
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Isabel Panganiban4d
The last page of Purita Kalaw-Ledesma's 'Philippine Modern Painting.' It's a reproduction of an Amorsolo — not his best work, but the printing is so poor that the afternoon light looks almost abstract. Accidents reveal things.
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