“Comfort, Discomfort” (Part III)

SIGNIFICANCE AND SOME IMPLICATIONS OF THE BISHOP’S CHAIR (SOCIO-CULTURAL ASPECTS TO “Y” FAMILY) (*Art installation I executed by using the bishop’s chair as material culture on art.) The “Y” family belongs to the top of the social strata however the matriarch of the family grew in a below middle-class family. But because of hard work…

COMFORT, DISCOMFORT (Part II)

 ARCHAEOLOGY ON ART: SULHIYA BISHOP CHAIR AS MATERIAL CULTURE.   Here is the second installment of the article which I wrote a week ago on the subjects, material culture and art installation—- a mini research which I wrote  for the art work (a plate requirement ) that I exhibited with my classmates for a Fine…

COMFORT, DISCOMFORT

ARCHAEOLOGY ON ART: SULHIYA BISHOP CHAIR  AS MATERIAL CULTURE The Bishop’s Chair “But was this simplicity a product of the taste of individuals, or of received notions about the proprieties of domestic life?”— Adrian Forty (Author of Objects of Desire) The connotation of the object which is a  bishop’s chair (three chairs actually)  that I…

March

It is the graduation season in my country – the march of the hopeful former students who are now officially calling themselves as the graduates.  It was not long ago that I graduated from my 3rd course at the University of the Philippines. It was two years ago. Don’t be misled because I did not…