Art Talks

Seeing Beyond through Perceived Horizons

An idea of a horizon can be explored through a landscape, or maybe not. Jean Marie Syjuco’s series “Scenes From A Vanishing Star” exhibits strokes that glide across the frame as if pertaining to a mountain range with clouds, yet the title suggests of a place far beyond our atmosphere. Abstracted yet seems representational in a glance. As Pat Tañedo’s “Lakbay” deliberately shows a seascape, though representational it becomes abstracted at quick glance because she rendered it using plastic sheets as if they are thick strokes of paint. As for Julienne Ng’s interior landscape, the surreal design of the space and the suggestive geometry plays also with abstraction. By using confusion and illusion as cross-representational devices, the interpretation of horizon on a two-dimensional plane becomes broader as these three works of art have expressed the idea of space.