July Calendar
In Thy Wounds
This painting is a remake of Caravaggio’s Incredulity of St. Thomas. In this modern retake, Thomas touches the Hapag and scrutunizes it. This reminds me of a 2nd year college student who visited my exhibit a year ago in the UST Fine Arts Department. She approached me and said in a soft voice, “Sir, I am an atheist.” Not sure of what I heard, I asked her to repeat. Again she went, “Sir, I am an atheist.” Pointing at the Hapag painting, she followed through, “But sir, if that is what God si all about, it has awakened a part of me.” I just smiled.
Six months later, I mounted another exhibit at the UST Museums. My heart stopped when I read a message in the guest book, I will never forget those words: “I am the atheist student who approached you the other time. I have been visiting your new exhibit five times already hoping that I would meet you, Sir. I have been baptized already.”
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awwww….ang ganda naman nung story
nice! inspiring. Hi po Ms. Winkie. *kaway-kaway*
u r like a ray of sunshine in the first day of the month winkie. sana maganda ang pasok ng buwan sa iyo 🙂
Wow! Ang ganda naman ni ms. tinkie winkie!
I know Mr. Joey Velasco, i heard of him already. I’m currently reading Fr. Juni, SJ book entitled ‘Embraced by God’ and the cover and the rest of the pictures are from Joey’s paintings. Ang ganda talaga.. Superb!
As far as I know, kinikilala na sya sa Europe ngaun..
Thanks for posting this. Godbless!
Sometimes I want to ask a friend if mine who claims to be an atheist. I want to ask him why he sometimes blurts out ‘Oh! My God!’ when he doesn’t believe in God or any gods. On a serious note, it’s such a great feeling to be a ‘bridge’ of a non-believer to have himself/herself baptized as a Christian or any religion he believes.
ahm…i am an agnostic. pwede rin ba makahingi ng painting ni mr. velasco? tas ibebenta ko sa recto para may pambili ako ng pulang kabayo. huhlolz. jokeness.
ate lalaklakin ni lio ung pulang kabayo hehe..
ate ang galing ni j.velasco real painting may buhay..kung titigan mo..
Sows to si Lio o, angseryus kaya!
heniwei, I really feel blessed kapag nakakarinig/nakakabasa ako ng awakening stories.
Godbless you Ate Winkie! 🙂
ang ganda 🙂
hmmm.. kailangan pa bang imemorized ‘yon.. syempre Oo 😉
if a picture paints a thousand words…this is preceisely what i was thinking while looking into the picture….salamat
Beautiful!
“Sa Kambas ng Lipunan” youtube video ko unang natagpuan yang artist na yan. Salute to our Filipino artist!