Urbanscape@149

Artwork photographed by Manolo O. Sales

Artwork by:	Franklin Caña Velencia aka Caña
Dimensions:	38.0 cm x 38.0 cm
Medium:	Acrylic on Canvas
Year:	2023
Location:	Hanoi PE
Filed Under:	Sinag sa Sining

Description
Franklin Valencia, who signs his artwork as “Caña” (his middle name), was born in Calauag, Quezon. He grew up in Quezon City and studied Fine Arts at the University of Santo Tomas in the Philippines. He is a member of the prestigious Saturday Arts Group of Artists. He has been a visual artist for more than two decades and has already held several solo & group exhibits in the Philippines. Caña likewise has already exhibited in Switzerland, France, US, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Vietnam, and Malaysia. His artworks have been featured in several magazines, newspapers, and television shows in the Philippines. Caña specializes in abstract paintings with special texturing technique using vibrant hues and myriads of colors distinctly using the concept of prismatic art with its fragmented shards of color to its maximum effect. His works infuse nature and show man’s symbiotic relationship with his environment to impart social consciousness. Caña draws his artistic inspiration from childhood memories of playing with glass marbles in the streets with other children. With the fragmented images that characterize his art, Caña displays the play of colors and light, the colorful patterns and the way the hues weave through each other in his paintings. His artwork, “Urbanscape@149”, reflects on such childhood. “Mahirap lang kami at ang bahay namin ay halos parang sa barung- barong na ‘gaya ng mga nasa tabi ng sapa or creek. Nong bata pa ako, lagi kong dino-drawing ang mga barung-barong. ‘Di ko pa alam ang ibig sabihin ng pagiging mahirap noon. Basta natutuwa ako sa mga pattern ng mga tagpi-tagping bahay. Na-embed na isip ko yon. Kaya sa puso ko, mas nakakakita ako ng pag-asa maski gano’n kadukha pala ang mga yoon.” “We came from a poor family and our house was almost like the makeshift shack commonly seen near the river or creek. When I was still a child, I would always draw these makeshift shacks. I have not thought about the meaning of being poor back then. All knew was that I like the patterns I see from these makeshift shacks. Those impressions were embedded in my subconscious. So, in my heart, what always surfaces is the glimmer of hope despite how poor one’s circumstances are.”
Written by: Hanoi PE

Description

Franklin Valencia, who signs his artwork as “Caña” (his middle name), was born in Calauag, Quezon. He grew up in Quezon City and studied Fine Arts at the University of Santo Tomas in the Philippines. He is a member of the prestigious Saturday Arts Group of Artists. He has been a visual artist for more than two decades and has already held several solo & group exhibits in the Philippines. Caña likewise has already exhibited in Switzerland, France, US, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Vietnam, and Malaysia. His artworks have been featured in several magazines, newspapers, and television shows in the Philippines.

Caña specializes in abstract paintings with special texturing technique using vibrant hues and myriads of colors distinctly using the concept of prismatic art with its fragmented shards of color to its maximum effect. His works infuse nature and show man’s symbiotic relationship with his environment to impart social consciousness.

Caña draws his artistic inspiration from childhood memories of playing with glass marbles in the streets with other children. With the fragmented images that characterize his art, Caña displays the play of colors and light, the colorful patterns and the way the hues weave through each other in his paintings.

His artwork, “Urbanscape@149”, reflects on such childhood. “Mahirap lang kami at ang bahay namin ay halos parang sa barung- barong na ‘gaya ng mga nasa tabi ng sapa or creek. Nong bata pa ako, lagi kong dino-drawing ang mga barung-barong. ‘Di ko pa alam ang ibig sabihin ng pagiging mahirap noon. Basta natutuwa ako sa mga pattern ng mga tagpi-tagping bahay. Na-embed na isip ko yon. Kaya sa puso ko, mas nakakakita ako ng pag-asa maski gano’n kadukha pala ang mga yoon.”

“We came from a poor family and our house was almost like the makeshift shack commonly seen near the river or creek. When I was still a child, I would always draw these makeshift shacks. I have not thought about the meaning of being poor back then. All knew was that I like the patterns I see from these makeshift shacks. Those impressions were embedded in my subconscious. So, in my heart, what always surfaces is the glimmer of hope despite how poor one’s circumstances are.”

Written by: Hanoi PE