Happy Philippine Independence Day, or as they say, maligayang araw ng kalayaan! ecently I've been learning a lot about Filipino history through the Artikulo Uno movies including Heneral Luna and Goyo: Ang Batang Heneral, inspiring me to read more into Filipino history and express it through art. It allowed me to better understand my heritage and gain a greater appreciation for my country and all the Filipinos who made it what it is. Above, you can see I even painted one of the most memorable scenes from Goyo. As today is Philippine Independence Day, I thought I would share another magical realism story influenced heavily by Filipino mythology, geography, and my own family below.
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The Desperate Man by Gustave Courbet at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page via http://writersinspire.org/content/desperate-man. Accessed on Monday, June 01, 2020. Ekphrasis: the use of a detailed description of visual art as a literary device, such as Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch. Also an assignment for the 50 Essays project that my teacher assigned me. Though there are many paintings that have a special place in my heart, the one above always catches my eye. I hope you enjoy the work of fiction below based on Courbet's work.
The second stemmed from my family watching '1898: Los Últimos de Filipinas," a movie on the Siege of Baler from the Spanish perspective. We followed this movie by watching "Heneral Luna" and "Goyo: Boy General," letting me see a side of Filipino history that I, unfortunately, hadn't known very much about before.
This new-found interest in magic and renewed interest in history sparked the story you will find below by clicking "Read More," inspired by the Siege of Baler and García Márquez's works. |
AuthorAlessandra Tatoy knows that the power of words is stronger than anything, coming from a country whose fight for independence was sparked by the works of an author sentenced to death of his words. You can find her articles, poetry, short stories, and other musings here. Archives
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