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ABOUT THE WORK

In the late 1980s, Jerry Elizalde Navarro took a step forward that would take his artistic career to the next level. Already at the age of 65, Navarro, on the suggestion of his daughter Pearl, took up Cornelius Choy’s offer for a Resident Artist Program in Bali, Indonesia. “Bali just stuns you with colors,” he wrote in his 1989 Philippine Daily Article Bali on My Mind. “A very vigorous and free profusion of colors in the Bali palette plays a major role in the unfolding of the life there.” This renewed appreciation for colors is evident in his 1992 Dancing on the Waves. The island of Bali, surrounded by the seas on all sides, is adequately represented in the intensity of the colors and the curves of the lines in this piece. His abstractive interpretation of the place only elevated one’s interest in the hues – it echoes Elizalde’s praises of Bali as Cid Reyes documents in J. Elizalde Navarro: “I have not experienced a stimulation as vibrant and as scintillating [as my first seven days in Bali.]” Bali in his abstractions is exactly as he had experienced it – overwhelmingly beautiful and haunting in its vividness. (Hannah Valiente)