Aldy Aguirre's Reflections in Watercolor

"I can somehow control watercolor, but no fully, and I like that. Not all my strokes and movements need to be precise…

How Gianne Encarnacion traces the worlds within

In the past year, the artist and illustrator’s works have come to life as immersive dioramas, joining Cartellino…

Refuge in the Art of Nicole Tee

"Are we shaped by the spaces around us, or are our spaces extensions of our innermost selves?"

The Visceral Mindscapes of Tarzeer Pictures’ Hemispheres

"Throughout the show, a range of elements attempt to provide structure and shelter for the mind. Light crackles and…

Hannah Nantes on the home and its (dis)contents

Her Cartellino solo release Garden of Lost Snails continues until October 18.

A city that kills in Mike Olea’s Kanayunan Patungong Kalunsuran

Mike Olea’s photographs trace killing as violence encoded in the daily life of the urban poor.

What's in a gesture?

"To gesture, on the one hand, is to signify an artistic mark. But, on the other, it is an intuitive language beyond—or before—language,…

Allan Balisi’s Waiting Games

"[T]here’s a romantic tinge to the practice of waiting, an ache that renders us momentarily porous, submersible."

A wild plant grows through the concrete pavement

Punk lives on in unexpected spaces through artists A.lien (Neil Arvin Javier) and Mark Tandoyog.

 Time as truthsayer and shaper: Seventy Years Later

Both guided by the notion that people are “intermediaries and creators of destiny”, Prado and Bumanlag thread moments real and surreal…