An unfinished collaborative project with Philippine artist Rameer Tawasil
Carabao as the unfinished Philippines
Oil on canvas
composite 5' x 7'
2011

My contribution to a collaborative project with Philippine artist Rameer Tawasil. Shown here in a typical horizontal representation of a carabao, but when tipped vertically (head to the top) into portait mode, the piece can evoke an image of the Philippine archipelago's three regions - Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao - Mindanao in the south represented as 'unfinished' in its development, progress and inclusion with an emerging sense of Philippine national unity - Isang Bayan