"kutyapi player"

TITLE: KUTYAPI PLAYER

MEDIUM: MIXED-MEDIA SIZE: 3’X4’

TRADITION-INSPIRATION: kutyapi is a common musical string instrument in Mindanao and very much part of the various musical instruments used by the Moro people. Although, kutyapi is not part of the kulintangan ensemble, it became a favorite tool in accompanying a “tudtulan”, romantic song, “bayok” and the modern Maguindanaon “dayunday”. Samaong Sulayman, a Maguindanaon, is a “Gawad sa Manlilikha ng Bayan” for kutyapi. This instrument evokes vitality and the joy of life and its music presents longing, sentimentality and utmost melancholy.

My first work using mixed-media and my experimentation in the fusion of 'okir' motif into abstract-figurative art style which took me 8 years to finalized as my own unique style in painting. This work represents the embodiment of soul searching and the ultimate pursuit of greatness as well the test of the limits of our talents. And by experimenting with the dictum of never be contended of what you can do, you will eventually reached the art that reflects truly who you are as an artist.