15/02/2025
Reposting Sintang Bato's Story
(where Facebook prompts our 2nd faceversary)
In 2004 I was introduced to jewelry art accidentally when exiting Vigeland Park in Oslo, a Latino street artist caught my attention. He was doing magic with wires, weaving images with his hands and I cannot help but be drawn to the web he was weaving. And the last thing I needed to do happened (I bought the piece!๐
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Being a post-grad student then, living on a fellowship grant in the UK, and just on a side trip after a conference at the University of Oslo, trained me to be very careful with how I spend my allowance (or should I say tempered my spending habits).
The incident may have sent an unconscious desire to the universe to learn the craft which Iโve only realized now. Though the handwork may be different, my heart tells me that what I do is art for quite often it is the urge to create that draws me to a material, with the latter needing just a hand to release it's form. --Thus the birth of SINTANG BATO were experimenting with materials were but expressions of the forms explored in communion with the One True Source.
Working with my hands, I feel one with the Universe, with my Creator, with God and creation hence the urge to always --explore, experiment and express. And these have become my meditation mantra, with creating heirlooms my prayer moment๐
๐ I share SINTANG BATO's story๐