Photography – Los Angeles
I was born in the Philippines. I moved to Alaska in 1985. I visited Los Angeles in 1988, and enjoyed the city and the weather. So I moved to California in 1989. I studied art in California State University, Long Beach. For my Color Theory class, I presented Mandala as an art therapy and meditation. Several years later, I rediscovered Mandala by mirroring pictures. The starting stage transformation of the picture before it becomes Mandala is called Mandalaesque. Mandala is a Sanskrit word meaning circle. It is the symbol of the universe. In my work, the Mandalaesque to Mandala display multiple mirrors of our world, the multiple perspectives of nature or object that may be possible visually only with four or eight eyes. Spiders with four to eight eyes are an example of seeing a mandala effortlessly by creating their own webs in a mandala design. Mandalaesque gives a new perspective of our world. Like the beginning of our life, as a sperm enters an egg, the cell multiplies into two, four, eight, sixteen until it becomes human. Similarly, my photograph becomes Mandalaesque, divides into 4 point mandala, turns into 8 point mandala, and so on. In the Mandalaesque stage, it surprises me sometimes to see images of angels, aliens, butterflies, fairies, and other creatures emerge from mirroring of the original photograph. Lately, I started a video of my moving Mandala at YouTube on my channel called Journey Inside and Out.