Provenance: Provenance: Private Collection, Manila

ABOUT THE WORK

Lyle Buencamino graduated with a bachelor’s degree in fine arts (Major in Painting) in 2005 from the University of the Philippines. He is known for his large-scale paintings inspired by movie stills from the LVN Productions in the 1950s, often referred as the “Golden Age ‘’ in Filipino cinema, as well as reflections on behaviors in institutions and similar public spaces. Hanna Pettyjohn, a Dallas-based Filipina contemporary artist, also graduated with the same degree and from the same university. Her works are personal, featuring contemporary humanist narratives out of collective experiences and first-hand encounters with global diaspora. This large-scale collaborative piece by Buencamino and Pettyjohn is reminiscent of the images presented in the Rorschach inkblot psychological test, created by Swiss psychologist Hermann Rorschach, that is often used to assess personality and emotional functioning