Provenance: Provenance: Private Collection, Manila

ABOUT THE WORK

This sense of a ruptured, weeping earth implies the power of the natural forces that lie beneath the green blanket of Tagaytay which overlooks the Taal volcano. In this painting there is an explosion of color, but also of loose fluid forms, as if the earth has been cracked open by an earthquake and a volcanic eruption at the same time, The bold streak of molten read breaking out of the greens and yellows suggest the opening of the earth that has been swept by a fire storm of intense energy. The drama of Reyes; colors, is indeed in trying to make something that doesn’t exist in nature until he makes them, as well as to express a wide range of emotions and moods of imagination that are integral parts of the artist’s character that cannot be expressed in other forms