PORTFOLIO FOREWORD
The artworks featured are Lemuel Blanco's paintings from 2019 until the current year. The selection comprises depictions of self-expression, interpretations of traditional forms, and folk objects and events relayed into the contemporary milieu.
ARTIST'S iNTENTION
Memories resurface through my work, and they are the reflections of the world as I remember. In fine art, sculpture, and painting, I seek to express peace, dreamy and bright, a shared sanctuary despite the unfeeling realities of the world.
The impressions of figures take the form of quiet individuals, in harmony, or at crossroads, from the skies to mountains, to fields and waters. The silence within my work is the words and music they speak. I create to remember, record, and attain permanence in my personal, artistic, and nationalistic identity.
Essentially, I desire to inform a space as intimate as a home or as grand as towering halls, a contemplative and worthwhile insight into memories of serenity. Decorative yet serves as a promise of balance, stillness and a moment remembered for peace.
PORTFOLIO AFTERWORD
The selected artworks were categorized into collections for they are in relation or dialogue with one another.
Shown in this section is a portrait I painted of my Lolo [Grandfather] Jose "Pitok" Blanco. With the dimension of 20 by 15 inches, which I painted in 2021, Oil on Canvas.