Exhibited: Exhibited: "Passage," ArtistSpace of the Ayala Museum, Makati, Manila, 2009

ABOUT THE WORK

This is a seascape speckled with marshes and organic forms that look like rocks or coral formations or the breakwater that Sanso is famous for. The orange red tones is reminiscent of the famous Manila Bay sunset. Sanso has had a fascination for water since his childhood. Sanso in his writings on his fascination for bodies of water remembers his long trip from Barcelona to Manila in a ship. He also saw a photograph of himself as a child standing on a rock at a seaside in Catalunia before leaving for Manila. In the Philippines, his family settled in a home built by the Pasig river in Manila where he played and swam as a child. Much later in his life, he moved to Brittany, France to live an artist’s life near a body of water — this time beside the sea. This seascape of a burnt orange sunset is the collective memory of the sunset by the Manila Bay, the sunset in Batangas, and the sunset of the Pasig River right behind his home. The color of the sunlight in the tropics is bright and glary during hot days. As the sun sets in the tropics, the sky turns from light blue to blazing shades of mango yellow and papaya orange.