Kabingue | Abellana | Florido
ABELLANA
Victor Abellana, fondly called Ingkoy by his friends and family, has always had a proclivity for the arts. He is the youngest son of Jovito S. Abellana, a writer and sculptor whose works are displayed in Museo Sugbo. He started pursuing the arts more seriously when he retired from his life as a chemical engineer.
Now at 80 years old, he's tried his hand at different media ranging from oil to acrylic to digital, and has dabbled in sculpting particularly with papier-mâché. More notably, he has found his passion for butterfly mosaics.
With the help of very supportive relatives in procuring dead butterflies from local butterfly sanctuaries, he would cut up their wings and painstakingly glue them to form beautiful and iridescent paintings like no other. Take a look at his magical artworks and see for yourself just how one-of-a-kind they are!
FLORIDO
I like how painting lets me manipulate the way I see the world around me. Art gives me a power, a sort of magic that I cannot have in other aspects of my life. On canvas, I can move mountains, change the colors of things, or make them disappear. I can reduce viewers to the size of a cup and make them focus on abstract patterns in ordinary everyday objects. My work allows me to share what I see in my head with others, and it lets me bring other people into this private space that I inhabit and share all the wonderful things I see. Art is magical.