Artist Statement
(The Ontology of Aesthetics: Its Reality, Symbolism, and Historical Origin)
This artwork, Dreaming a Sublime Home in My Ravaged Town, is my own desperate aesthetic aplomb after I lost some of my relatives, my home, and my source of livelihood (coconut farm that sustains to continue creating my art) due to the deadly Super Typhoon Pablo (Bopha) that totally defaced and ravaged my hometown in Cateel, Davao Oriental, Philippines, last December 4, 2012.
Artist's Statement
Every reality has its symbol and meaning that represents the empirical and metaphysical condition of human existence. The dreamlike images that I have intricately woven into my art are revelations of this reality, reflective of my experience, culture, and beliefs.
The complex mode and varied forms, colors, and textures of my works (visual arts, poetry, and music) may elicit psychological tension and ambivalent reaction, insight, or judgment. On the contrary, they are modest representations of my existential journey and perception of the world based on the historical condition of my culture and society. The joy, the agony, and the sense of wonder that I went through the entire creative process are more cathartic and dramatically consequential than the finished artworks themselves.
In the context of my personal experience as an artist engaging in various artistic disciplines, I believe that understanding art from its ontological perspective, one must go beyond from what is given (the visible) by ruminating what is hidden (the invisible). The viewer then, in this manner, can immerse and empathetically feel the hands, the mind, and the heart of an artist, and reflect how his creation came into existence.
It is equally important to note that the artwork represents the artist and through his work, he becomes visible to the World. The artist and his art are indispensable in the same way, as the artist is not isolated from the World for which he offers his creative life in pursuit of sublime aesthetics.
The artist may at times withdraw from the World not to escape away from it, but to meditate upon its complex reality with such clarity of vision amid the solitary confinement of his studio. The World, on the other hand, is not compelled to understand the artist or his work. However, the World is there as the legitimate reason for the artist to create and bring to light the metaphysical realities of his creation, which are the Truth, Goodness, and Beauty.
~ Danny Castillones Sillada
Every reality has its symbol and meaning that represents the empirical and metaphysical condition of human existence. The dreamlike images that I have intricately woven into my art are revelations of this reality, reflective of my experience, culture, and beliefs.
The complex mode and varied forms, colors, and textures of my works (visual arts, poetry, and music) may elicit psychological tension and ambivalent reaction, insight, or judgment. On the contrary, they are modest representations of my existential journey and perception of the world based on the historical condition of my culture and society. The joy, the agony, and the sense of wonder that I went through the entire creative process are more cathartic and dramatically consequential than the finished artworks themselves.
In the context of my personal experience as an artist engaging in various artistic disciplines, I believe that understanding art from its ontological perspective, one must go beyond from what is given (the visible) by ruminating what is hidden (the invisible). The viewer then, in this manner, can immerse and empathetically feel the hands, the mind, and the heart of an artist, and reflect how his creation came into existence.
It is equally important to note that the artwork represents the artist and through his work, he becomes visible to the World. The artist and his art are indispensable in the same way, as the artist is not isolated from the World for which he offers his creative life in pursuit of sublime aesthetics.
The artist may at times withdraw from the World not to escape away from it, but to meditate upon its complex reality with such clarity of vision amid the solitary confinement of his studio. The World, on the other hand, is not compelled to understand the artist or his work. However, the World is there as the legitimate reason for the artist to create and bring to light the metaphysical realities of his creation, which are the Truth, Goodness, and Beauty.
~ Danny Castillones Sillada