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"Golden Whisper: Unspoken"
Acrylic on Canvas
20 x 30 inch
2026

Is displayed at Robinsons North Tacloban on its last day of the exhibit.

Grateful for the opportunity to showcase one of my works at Himursak 2026 in celebration of National Arts Month.

Thank you to TATAC Visual Arts for the opportunity, and to everyone behind the event, damo nga salamat po.

Thank you to my family, friends, and everyone who supported and viewed the exhibit. 🤍

Glory to God!!!

The Art of a Memory: Finding "Matched" 8 Years Later

They say "don't judge a book by its cover," but back in 2017, it was exactly the cover and the font of a book that etched itself into my mind.

I was in Grade 9 when I found this novel in our school library. I only read 15 pages before schoolwork took over, and eventually, I forgot the title entirely. But as an artist, the visual stayed with me. For 8 years, those first 15 pages replayed in my head like a movie. I’ve spent years scanning bookstores, searching for that specific aesthetic, not knowing the name of what I was looking for, just knowing I’d recognize it when I saw it.

Yesterday, after a pamper day with Mom, I walked into a bookstore and there it was: "Matched: by Ally Condie

I actually laughed at the "full circle" moment of it all. So much has happened in these 8 years, I’ve finished school, graduated college, and changed in so many ways. Being reunited with this book now gives me such a different feeling; it's like meeting an old friend after a lifetime apart.

I still don't know how the story goes—I only know those first 15 pages—but I am so incredibly excited to finally enter its world. To make it even better, I discovered it’s a trilogy! I bought all three immediately to add to the book collection I share with my sister. 📚

It’s a reminder of how a simple design and a few words can stay with us for nearly a decade. I’m so ready to finally finish what I started.

Note: I was so excited to finally find it that I didn't even know how the sequence of the trilogy goes! I realized I was holding them in the wrong order, but it's okay—I’ve got it sorted now. 😂 (It's Matched, Crossed, then Reached!)