While known for drawing inspiration from myths, folktales, and classical works of fantasy literature, Marcel Antonio is also known for the recurring pseudo- narratives in his body of works. A curious aspect of Antonio’s paintings, these pseudo-narratives become testaments to the artist’s masterfully distinct manner of post-expressionism. Visibly apparent in this painting, the resulting image on Antonio’s canvas is often peculiar, nevertheless quaint and dreamy with its collage-like render of subjects in disorientingly varying perspectives, solemn facial expressions, as well as odd distortions of spaces and bodies. Although the composition seemingly leads towards a narrative, this hint of a plot refuses to pin itself down, always floating out clue-like elements in the form of symbols and seemingly cryptic objects. In other words, any sense of a narrative is always led astray by these spontaneous figures that emerge and break any sense of continuity in the painting. Such is exactly the charm of Marcel Antonio’s works: that these pseudo-narratives are akin to the liminal spaces of a dream, spontaneously charting their course in a stream of personal experiences, memory, collective imagination, and the sea of the unconscious. (Pie Tiausas)