Sensing Art
"the arts reflect the past, enrich the present and imagine the future" - national endowment for the arts, USi was really hooked up with my thesis lately, a music center for the Philippines. i have realized so much about our culture especially in terms of our art and our people who lack appreciation on it.
i just want to quote a line from the movie Rent it is a scene where a documentarist
well it doesn't mean artists are poor but people are so damn worldly that they do not know what art is... not even appreciate the sense in a beauty... and so artist are being put aside..
i have gone to mt.makiling in laguna this july and i was pleased with what i saw... and heard. aside from the scenic view of laguna de bay i have met a bunch of talented highschool students residing on a mountain top just to study in special school for the arts. this students are good at their skills. they crave for the art <> but it's sad to know that over the Philippines there are only a few who realized the higher power of art.
why am i writing about this stuff anyway? just because i am moved. have you heard of pinikpikan band? joey ayala? grace nono? maybe yes, maybe no. But certainly most Filipinos are unfamiliar to them... me?...not until i have heard their music. It's something we as Filipinos can be proud of and listening to their music just gives you an idea of how rich our culture is, how wide our traditions have reached and how people like them value the preservation and conservation of our ethnicity.
yet.. Pinoys do have a place in their hearts for the international music or the commercial art... but what it is in our culture that we should learn?! our history, the very indigenous pinoy that drafts our culture, the people who is concerned with our nature, with our tribes (traditional people and ethnic groups), with our nation, with our Bathala.
i am an architect-to-be and as cotributor to the landscape of our nation it is my duty to promote our culture, to be an artist with scientific foundation and to be a scientist with artistic substance.
posted by juliusmarzan @ 10:57 PM
1 Comments:
Namimiss ko tuloy ang mga Teatro days natin. Sana makapaggawa ulit tayo ng mga plays. Sana makapag-direct ulit ako... Miss ko na kayo!!
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