Selected Press and Publications
There is a wonderful interplay or conversation going on between the watercolours, the laser-cut cardboard and the ceramics. Technically they are very assured. The titles are like poetic titles from the 1890s: Grove Series: Gabriel and Mary; The sight of the Moon over a windless Meadow; The Path the Sun makes in the ebb of day.
Her studies for Path and Jacob’s ladder are double backed and set on an isolated plinth in the centre of the gallery. It’s like a fulcrum to the exhibition.
-Excerpt from ‘Tuesday in the Tropics 197’ Tony Godfrey
SOCIAL SET
THE CYCLE OF LIFE
A sight to behold are Paz’s powerful sculptures inspired by the iconic anitu -- the guardians of the gates and watchers of earth. She hand-modeled each sculpture and experimented in creating the ceramic glazes from scratch, using raw materials such as silica, copper carbonate and kaolin. The glazes were layered to create unique drips, volcanic textures and bronze-like saturation. These masterpieces channel angels of the earth.
“I have always sensed that though your work seems quite analytical and dispassionate that it is always about, however elliptically presented, a personal life.”
“She has confronted the tensions of rediscovering her roots and understanding the unfamiliarity of her home country. Her works draw from her unresolved conflicts in migration and memory, employing the iconic balikbayan box as an invaluable material to symbolize Philippine diaspora.”
“I was born here [in the Philippines] and grew up in America and Canada before returning here two years ago, so being a Balikbayan has been really interesting for me; I describe it as two polarities of being engaged and estranged to one’s country.”
“The works stem from the artist’s fascination with how images traverse our visual and material culture, and fall within a long-standing artistic reconsideration of the idea of painting.”
