LOCATION: Bulacan, Philippines
TAKEN: 22 Jul 2006
This old chair already hosted hundreds of relatives and visitors of our ancestral home in San Juan for more than 50 years now. Today, we celebrate our turn on this seat with an hour of self-portraiture. Ate Jo just turned 26.
3 comments:
It was so nice to hear that touching story of yours.. "antique chair". They've passed it generations by generations and now its your turn take care of it.
Like our LIFE.. Tested by time, trials, pains and sorrows. And its evidence is its scraches.. Truely, we can all surpass all of it.. by being brave, strong, and by having a stong faith in God.
Nice bes..
Nakakatuwa ang photo na ito, Ate.
Seeing those elements seated on an antique chair that has transcended different and differing dimensions of time is like challenging the photo's "reader"/spectator to open hi/her mind's eyes to the act of measuring. For to measure is to embrace--to own: the spectator of photography, at that point of being confronted by this retrato, is moved to measure the space between births and deaths, between color and content, between age and innocence, between time and moment.
And the act of measuring is worthwile: smiles of youth claim and artifact of the past, thereby owning it, gaining a sense of a fuller measurement between the self and the past selves that ever sat there. :)
Poet Anne Carson leaves us with her defintion of knowledge: "To know is to extend oneself from a spaceless within to the edge of what can be loved."
--love you. :)
tip/joey! your messages are so insightful. touched talaga ako. would love to share that seat with you one day. =) tc. luv u!
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