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He named a method: Composed Photorealism
A constructed reality assembled from photographs taken across different times and places, rendered with photorealist precision. Coherent to the eye, impossible to have photographed.
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His subject is cultural preservation
Thirty-four years turned toward the Filipino child, at play, in games that are disappearing from Philippine childhood — rendered with the rigor international photorealists reserved for chrome.
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He built institutions that outlive him
Dean of Fine Arts, GK College. President, UFAP. Co-founder of a second school in Cadiz City. A scholarship. A gallery. A curriculum where the method is taught, not guarded.
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The lineage closed
He won the Shell National Students Art Competition Grand Prize in 1992. His own students now win it. One of them teaches in the atelier that trained him.
