emil08

Tubao cloth, a traditionally handwoven ethnic cloth made by non-muslim, muslim and indigenous peoples in Mindanao (Southern Philippines.This colorful cloth is worn as headpiece or headscarf and used as handkerchief. Since the early 1980s used by Filipino social realist and visual artist Emil Yap as a medium to his paintings and artworks.



Pitong Tuwa, Alay Kay Flor. Emil Yap. Mixed Media on Tubao Cloth. 1995.



Mag-Ina ng Aking Panahon. Emil Yap. Mixed Media on Tubao Cloth. 1995



Kaguinhawahan serye 2. Emil Yap. Mixed Media. 59"X40".2006



Takas ng Bayan. Emil Yap. Mixed Media. 59"X46". 2006.



Pangarap ng Bukas ng Isang Takas. Emil Yap. Mixed Media. 15"X11". 1994.

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ode to an artist

your mind is full of beautiful wounder
it makes me sit here and ponder
what would it be like to be
in the mind such great as thee
The pen and paint brush flow
As you paint a picture to show
how your mind works in its ways
How your mind is far beyond this age
Your life and love are seen all around
by the beauty of the sound
your pen makes
as it breaks
to the world
the beauty of a girl
the beauty of love
the beauty of above
Ode to an artist
how i love thee so
and how you show
us the world

poetrylovelife (td)
may 21 2009

~EIGHT LIES OF A MOTHER~

1.The story began when I was a child;
I was born as a son of a poor family..
Even for eating, we often got lack of food.
Whenever the time for eating, mother often gave me her portion of rice..
While she was removing her rice into my bowl,
she would say "Eat this rice, son. I'm not hungry".
That was Mother's First Lie


2.When I was getting to grow up,
the persevering mother gave her spare time for fishing in a river near our house,
she hoped that from the fishes she got,
she could gave me a little bit nutritious food for my growth.
After fishing, she would cook the fishes to be a fresh fish soup,
which raised my appetite. While I was eating the soup,
mother would sit beside me and eat the rest meat of fish,
which was still on the bone of the fish I ate.
My heart was touched when I saw it..
I then used my chopstick and gave the other fish to her.
But she immediately refused it and said "Eat this fish, son.
I don't really like fish."
That was Mother's Second Lie.

3.Then, when I was in Junior High School,
to fund my study,
mother went to an economic enterprise to bring some used-matches boxes that would be stuck in.
It gave her some money for covering our needs.
As the winter came,
I woke up from my sleep and looked at my mother who was still awoke,
supported by a little candlelight and within her perseverance she continued
the work of sticking some used-matches box.
I said, "Mother, go to sleep, it's late,
tomorrow morning you still have to go for work.
" Mother smiled and said "Go to sleep,
dear. I'm not tired."
That was Mother's Third Lie.

4.At the time of final term,
mother asked for a leave from her work in order to accompany me.
While the daytime was coming and the heat of the sun was starting to shine,
the strong and persevering mother
waited for me under the heat of the sun's shine for several hours.
As the bell rang, which indicated that the final exam had finished,
mother immediately welcomed me and poured me a glass of tea
that she had prepared before in a cold bottle.
The very thick tea was not as thick as my mother's love,
which was much thicker. Seeing my mother covering with perspiration,
I at once gave her my glass and asked her to drink too.
Mother said "Drink, son. I'm not thirsty!".
That was Mother's Fourth Lie.

5.After the death of my father because of illness,
my poor mother had to play her role as a single parent.
By held on her former job, she had to fund our needs alone.
Our family's life was more complicated. No days without sufferance.
Seeing our family's condition that was getting worse,
there was a nice uncle who lived near my house came to help us,
either in a big problem and a small problem.
Our other neighbors who lived next to us saw that our family's life was so unfortunate,
they often advised my mother to marry again. But mother,
who was stubborn, didn't care to their advice,
she said "I don't need love."
That was Mother's Fifth Lie.

6.After I had finished my study and then got a job,
it was the time for my old mother to retire.
But she didn't want to; she was sincere to go to the marketplace every morning,
just to sell some vegetable for fulfilling her needs.
I, who worked in the other city, often sent her some money to help her in fulfilling her needs,
but she was stubborn for not accepting the money.
She even sent the money back to me.
She said "I have enough money."
That was Mother's Sixth Lie.

7.After graduated from Bachelor Degree,
I then continued my study to Master Degree.
I took the degree, which was funded by a company through a scholarship program,
from a famous University in America .
I finally worked in the company. Within a quite high salary,
I intended to take my mother to enjoy her life in America .
But my lovely mother didn't want to bother her son,
she said to me "I'm not used to."
That was Mother's Seventh Lie.

8.After entering her old age,
mother got a flank cancer and had to be hospitalized.
I, who lived in miles away and across the ocean,
directly went home to visit my dearest mother.
She lied down in weakness on her bed after having an operation.
Mother, who looked so old, was staring at me in deep yearn.
She tried to spread her smile on her face;
even it looked so stiff because of the disease she held out.
It was clear enough to see how the disease broke my mother's body,
thus she looked so weak and thin.
I stared at my mother within tears flowing on my face.
My heart was hurt, so hurt, seeing my mother on that condition.
But mother, with her strength, said "Don't cry, my dear.
I'm not in pain."
That was Mother's Eight Lie.


After saying her eighth lie, She closed her eyes forever!!!

I'm now confused, do you?
On our National Symbols...

Our National Dance ...





is it carinosa or tinikling?

on our national animal ...







is it the carabao (kalabaw) or the tamaraw?

on our national sport?





















is it sepak takraw (or sipa), basketball, sabong, jueteng or the lotto?

what about our national costume...








the unpopular baro't saya for the women *matronas and the elite) and the barong for men... who are wearing this today?

who cares?

or try to recall what is our national fish?

















bangus (milkfish), galunggong, the Ligo sardines or the tuyo?
no one really cares, except i think our poor school children who were forced to memorized it literally just to passed their exam....

OMG, LOL, yak, hanep, talaga, kadire to death, tang-ina, anak ka ng tipaklong, i think will also became one of these days as our national favorite expression.... for the meantime bahala na si batman! daming isyu and problems outside this room....

missing some dreams
tired angel
memories of time
clinging to the web
trying to forget
sweet painful quotes
warm yesterdays
never exist
its
only
now
as
always

ULRIKE MEINHOF                                               b.October 7, 1934    d.May 9, 1976

                                                                                                       Mother,
                                                                                        Writer,
                                                                                               film maker
                                                                                                    Revolutionary







                          editor/publisher: Konkret
film: Bambule (1970)
author:Urban Guerilla Concept
co founder:rote armee fraktion

"Protest is when I say this does not please me.

Resistance is when I ensure what does not please me occurs no more"                                      
                                        - Ulrike Meihof

On 9 May 1976, mothers day, she was found hanged by a rope,fashioned from a towel, in her cell in the Stammhein Prison.The official verdict was suicide.The official findings were not accepted by many in the RAF and other militant organisations, and there are still some who doubt their accuracy and believe that she was murdered by the authorities.
Meinhof's body was buried six days after her death, in Berlin-Mariendorf. In late 2002, following investigations by her daughter Bettina, it was discovered that her brain had been retained (apparently without permission) by a hospital in Magdeburg, following the autopsy performed as part of the investigation into Meinhof's death. Bernhard Bogerts, a psychiatrist from the local university who had examined the brain controversially claimed that Meinhof's 'slide into terror' might be due to surgery performed in 1962 to remove a brain tumour.On Bettina's request, the brain was interred in Meinhof's burial place on 22 December 2002                                                                                          

Oct 14, '08 2:56 AM

Calling all artists, the youth and students
to please boycott Shell and Petron Art competitions
and all their sponsored art activities and functions
as a sign of protest for their greed and refusal to lower
its oil/gasoline prices.
hope we can unite on this important issues.
Now is the time to act!
please pass....

2nd post/call: 14 October 2008
1st call/post: 9 October 2008

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mabuhay / welcome / welkom / bienvenue / willkommen / benvenuto / bienvenida /
saúdo / ευπροσδεκτη / 欢迎 / ようこそ / 오신 것을 환영합니다 / приветствовать /

Alipin ng Talinhaga

             ( ni emilyap )  

Balakid ang wakas na pagmamahal

Sa kaluluwa ng isang baliw

Na mistulang rebulto sa kanyang pagkakatayo…

Tinatanaw ang timog, mula dito sa hilaga

Kung saan naghahari

Ang mga anito at diyosa,

Diwata at ispiritu

At doon, malinaw…

Namamayani ang mga bulag na pagsamba

Pilit na pinipigil ang pag-ikid

Ng pag-unlad at kasaysayan.

Tunay ang lakas ng kulto

Damang-dama, sobra ang bangis

Ang kamandag ay kumakalat

Lason sa isipan

Pagkain ng mga uhaw na panatiko!

Emil Yap a visual artist makes his home in Queen’s Row East, Bacoor, Cavite, where he also maintains his studio. His works are recognized for its uniqueness and intensity. Much of his works are strongly influenced by social realism artistic movement and eastern arts. His artworks are represented in some institutions and private collections of some Filipino, Chinese, Japanese, American and Scandinavian art enthusiasts.

Emil Yap has been selected as a grant artist for alternative public art of the Puffin Foundation (USA( in 1994 and chosen as one of the commissioned artist for Suntec City, Singapore in 1995 and consistent won awards and recognitions since elementary as an art students.

Emil Yap has been designing posters, books & magazines, calendars & postcards and brochures, producing meticulously hand painted cards, some of which are collectors items. These are sold in selected specialty shops, galleries, museums and institutions.

He teaches various aspects of visual, creative, alternative and indigenous arts to children, out-of-school youth and prisoners. Since 1992, he has developed alternative eastern based art workshops for the youth. He also served as an art/visual consultant of some non-governmental organizations and private corporations in their creative/visual art activities and projects.

At presents he is developing new forms of experimental arts and installations in conjunction with his new group called Ugnayan. Together they do researches, conduct inter-actions, discuss styles, concepts and development in Philippine arts.

Emil is also affiliated with Visual Artists Cooperative of the Philippines, Timog Artists Group, Art Association of the Philippines, Visual Arts Philippines, Sining Binhi Art Foundation Inc, Kalipunan ng mga Manlilikhang Sining Pilipino, Artists and Writers Action Committee (Canada), Artists and Popular Culture Coalition (USA), South-South Artists Cooperation (Switzerland)

 

Solo Exhibits

2007 Katarsis, Human Rights and Anti-Martial Law Museum, Cubao, Quezon City

2006 Panibugho ng mga Takas, Alona Galeria Art Gallery, Murphy, Cubao, Quezon City

1998 Igkas ng Manggagaod, Tandang Sora, Quezon City

1997 Kasiyahan, RAH, San Pablo, Laguna

1995 Walang Paglimot, Asian Social Institute, Ermita, Manila

Selected Group Exhibits

2008 IFEX, Installation Works, SMEX Pasay City

2007 Katarsis ng Bayang Mayaman na Mahirap Mural, Permanent Display Hunan Rights and Anti-Martial Law Museum, no. 45 St Mary’s St.,Cubao, Quezon City Phippines; Mural Display, United Nation Day Celebration, Queensrow, Bacoor, Cavite

2006 Panibugho ng mga Takas, solo exhibit, Alona Galeria Art Gallery,  Main Ave/15th ave Murphy, Cubao, Quezon City; Ugnayan, Ugnayan Art Exhibit, AGAG, Murphy, Cubao, Quezon City

2005 Mural Display, Women’s Day, Quezon City; Mural Display, Labor Day, Manila; Mural Display, Human Right’s Day, Manila

2004 Hustisya, Poster Display, Asia-Pacific Human Rights Conference, Geneva, Switzerland

2003 Mural Display, December 10, Manila

2002 Kasiyahan, Mural Display, Cebu City, Cebu

2001 Mural Display, Human Rights Day, St. Joseph College, Quezon City

2000 Istallation Work, Megamal Trade Center, SM Megamall; Installayion Work, World Trade Center, Pasay City

1999 Mural Display, TFDP National Convention, Lipa City, Batangas; Installation Work, First Asian Ethnic Food Festival, Philippine International Training Center, Pasay City; Globalisasyon, Art on Tee Shirts, Kalayaan at Kapayapaan Mural Display, Bangkok, Thailand; Mural Display, Antipolo City Fiesta; Mural Display, Lemery, Batangas

1998 Golden Jubilee Celebration of Our Mother of Perpetual Help National Shrine Murals and Installation works for the Main Altar, Redemptorists Church, Baclaran, Paranaque; Permanent Murals Display and Exhibit, Fr. Romano Hall, OMPH National Shrine, Paranaque; Mural Display, Peasant and Indigenous Peoples Parade, Manila; Mural Display, Bank of Philippine Islands (BPI) Anniversary; Kalayaang Pilipino Arts Traveling Exhibit– Europe; Sentenaryo ng Kalayaan Art Exhibit, Klub Pilipino, Greenhills, San Juan; Mga Takas na Bayani, Installations and Art Exhibit, Quezon City memorial Circle, Quezon City

1997 Kababaihang Migrante Mural Display, Women’s Day, Manila; Fiesta art Exhibit, Redemptorists Church, Cebu City, Cebu; Pagkakaisa, Mural Display, The Hague, The Netherlands; Art on Tee Shirts, Manila; Sining Bayan Group Exhibit, Tandang Sora, Quezon City; Kanayunan Ngayon, Mural Street Painting, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City; Mga Laban Sa Kanayunan Mural Display, Lake Caliraya, Kalayaan, Laguna; Mural Display, Lent, Redemptorists Church, Paranaque; Redemptorists Art and Mural Exhibit, Fr. Romano Hall, Redemptorists Church, Baclaran, Paranaque; Peasant Solidarity Art, Photo and Installations Exhibit, UP Faculty Center, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City; Alay Kay Maria Para Kay Hesus, Kasaysayan ng Redentorista sa Baclaran Mural display, main Altar, Our Mother of Perpetual Help National Shrine, Baclaran; Installation Works, Main Gate and Redemptorists road, OMPH National Shrine,  Baclaran; Konstitusyon, Mural Display, Paranaque-Pasay City; Higante Effigy Art, Display, Quirino Grandstand, Rizal Park, Manila; Bagong Liwanag and Bonifacio Mural Display, Redemptorists Church Convent Building, Paranaque; Art on Tee Shirts, Redemptorists Vice-Province of Manila

1996 Pamilyang Migrante Mural Display, Women’s Day, Manila; Vigan Day Art Exhibit, Vigan, Ilocos Sur; Panahon Na Mural Display, Prelature of Libmanan, Camarines Sur; Panagarap Paara Sa Kinabukasan, Sining Binhi Philippines Art Exhibit, Geo Center, Manila; pambansang Kalagayan Mural Display, OMPH National Shrine, Baclaran, Paranaque; Sabsaban, An Installation Work, Redemptorists Church Grounds, Paranaque

1995 San Jose, Ang Manggagawa Art Exhibit, Manila Manor Hotel, Manila; Flowers for Flor Art Exhibit, Manila Manor Hotel, Manila; Manila, Noon at Ngayon, Art Exhibit, Manila Manor Hotel, Manila; Sari-Saring Pangarap, A Three Man Art Exhibit, Manila Manor Hotel, Manila; American Chamber of Commerce Art Exhibit, Corinthian Plaza, Makati City; Society in Conflict, A Three Man Exhibit, Centro Escolar University, Manila; Walang Paglimot, Asian Social Institute, Manila

1994 Philippine International Convention Center Art Festival, PICC, Manila; Redemptorists Church Fiesta Art Festival, Baclaran; Sining at Kapaligiran Art Exhibit, Philippine General Hospital, Manila; Kapit sa Patalim Mural Display, Asian Tribunal on Women’s Rights, Tokyo, Japan

katarsis.ng aking panahon sa bayang mayaman na mahirap a mural by filipino social realist artist emil yap , oil on canvas 8 ft X 12 ft currently on permanent display at the human rights and anti martial law museum located at  no. 46 st mary st., cubao, quezon city philippines

katarsis ng mga takas serye 2 ang katarsis ng mga takas serye 2 ay isa sa 5 serye ng mga mixed media painting ni emil yap isang sosyal realist biswal artist na filipino.

katarsis serye 3 ang katarsis serye 3 ay isa sa 5 serye ng painting na mixed media sa kanbas ni emil yap na isang sosyal realist biswal artist na filipino.

Filipino social realist artist, emil yap si emil sa magdiwang gallery ay nagpakuha ng litrato sa tabi ng kaniyang painting na may titulong pag-asa sa kanayunan ngayon oil sa kanbas.

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