As We Lay To Bed by Dennis Bato

Nov . 14, 2014
Vinyl on Vinyl Gallery 

“Long story short . . . They forgot that they are all brothers and sisters cohabiting the same planet. So they kinda became delusional and imagined these invisible borders, Beliefs and structures separating them and started destroying each other and the Earth they live on . . . Instead of just living, sharing and evolving together. “

–Mike Adams & Dan Berger

Wake, eat, work sleep... and back to start, the cycle goes on and on just like a series of programs injected in our minds, morphing humans into mindless robots and foot soldiers.

Tradition, culture and beliefs greatly affect our society’s individual mindsets. In the verge of our modern stereotype era, everyone is shut in a delusion of living but in reality, turmoil and dismay lingers in each and every one of us. A temporary haven disguised in false hopes, greed, hunger, craving for something people want instead of need. Standards and practices create boundaries which entangle us in an imaginary prison cell that confines the freedom our thoughts seek, making every one a cliché in a mirage; the future we are reaching for.

The society is racing towards the path of technological advancements and breakthrough, which we can say that the human instinct for survival has set an enormous impact on the system imposed in our society. People have the capability of struggling to survive but lack the strength to live. The question is are we still moving forward?

“As we lay to bed” tends to revoke the ideology of modern mindsets which were trapped within the norms of the past, redirecting our urge to get out of the edificial casing, the standards and practices that is enveloping our society, and society’s main element – you.

ACCESS, A three-man show, next week, August 28, 2013, Wednesday!

Along with the hopes of a sunny day, catch ACCESS, a three-man show featuring Nemo, Blic and Bato, in Vinyl on Vinyl next week, August 28, 2013, Wednesday!

For now, stay safe everyone!

Communication has been the main soul of connection with one entity to another. A reality that enrich two edifice upon understanding each aspect involved; common goals, philosophy, feelings and other more complex matters such as religion and politics.

Language have been the contrivance for communication, conversing of people with each other made a bond on unifying insights and ideology, creating vast power that inhibits ties with each other. Art is also one bridge on this connection, from the artist's perspective to the interpretative minds of the viewer, color combination as well as intensity, the brightness of each stroke, the thickness and impact of lines, the vast meaning that will be processed within our brains upon experiencing these connections.

Three street and graffiti artists namely; NEMO, BLIC and BATO, members of Pilipinas Street Plan (PSP), merged to showcase these type of connections, with the sole reason of providing ideas as well as thoughts on what was happening within each one of them, different interpretation of their art, from their experiences on life as well as on streets, their ephemeral beauty which will provide the key to the doors of their creative and playful minds. Experience, translate and connect:access.