Provenance: Finale Art File The Drawing Room

ABOUT THE WORK

Marina Cruz often measures her work as that of a personal narration of her life, which her art takes us carefully through as every aspect of it. Cruz, a product of the minimalist aesthetics shows the interior of her house with the all the products and connotations that are typical in a modest Filipino home. She presents the faded floor tiles on the terraces have been dutifully cleaned in order to remove the dirt that has been rubbed off by household helper through the brush and soap water that is filled in an Orocan bucket that is carefully recreated with all its minute detail. The work that Cruz aims to depict in this view is the morning routine that happens every single day, with the cleaning of the open terrace that continues on through the mid-day, at which visitors and guest come and go with the floors maligned and dirtied once again. For here, the art that Cruz represents is a constant archiving of memories with each work depicted a retelling of past nostalgia at which, that are rediscovered.