3. Fortune No.1 | Fortune cigarette fliptop pack, packing tape, putty, paint, laquer. July 2013 is when I switched from Marlboro lights to Fortune lights due to the raised price in cigarettes and further instability regarding my own finances. I started collecting empty packages from my own consumption, then in early 2014, i eventually asked sari-sari stores for their extra packages on order to achieve a workable quantity of packages i'll be needing for an installation work. (From Still, show curated by Mariano Ching, to the second installment, Tabletop, to my 3rd solo show, to this show) Fortune No.1 is the first pack to be experimented. Ayos naman siya, i feel i just need to finish the transformation from a regular pack to a brick (kunwari). I would like to install it sana within the wall. If we could make a whole for Fortune No.1 to fit, or if it's not possible e i will have to buy a small weighing device then ill put the brick on top, showing no significant bearing in weight, in contrast with the appearance as a brick being gold. Attached photo: i, yung actual fortune no.1 . di k opa siya ginagalaw ulit kasi nakastack silang lahat, as seen on photo ii.
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Pavement | Broken glass, white cement, metal frame, calcium deposits from fish bones
and other raw materials (?). Based on a class research of Czarina Faye Pabilona, niece from my cousin, and her classmates. There are many excess bottles in our house that we cannot sell to the junk shop. Bubog lang daw. So why not use them as materials? Just recently, i smashed some of them out of rage. What happened was a big drama and what was achieved by the act of smashing bottles relieved me a huge amount of stress and the burden of not having to start with anything for this artwork!haha - the next step is to study my niece's thesis about using calcium extracts in forming pots. So this work is sort of an experiment, initially i plan on making one but since it's an experiment, why not make 2 or 3 with variations in the use of materials (white cement, cement an clay used in making pots) The reference image for this work is the pebble tile used as flooring at the house that used to be standing at the lot next to our house (same reference i used for the Tabletop show)