Drawing his inspiration where inspiration
is gone, Tristram Miravalles goes about a
painstaking process. From his first solo
“Mental Shock” ( Gallery Orange, Bacolod
City, 2011), he proceeds with his second
entitled “Shallow Grave”. A homegrown talent
of Negros Occidental, the artist detours from
an often pleasant visual imagery surrounding
his province and settles down with unintended
introspect on personal dark experiences and
stories of struggle.
With Shallow Grave, Tristram dispositions
life and death where life is being mourned
and death is but a presence of its own. He
reaches his spectators by leading them to
familiar scenes yet keeps them displaced by
extracting familiarity itself out of them;
distorting figures without going too far away
from realism.
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