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Land
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Lamberto Acyatan
CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW
Paradoxically , an artist would learn in time that the rule is there are no rules . Like the proverbial river that looks the same but there are elements that get added to it and subtracted from that life-sustaining body of water . Perhaps the river is an analogy that is closest to my approach . Sometimes there is a deliberate human intervention to direct the flow of water but the greater force of nature eventually wins out . In the end , it ’ s all about serendipity . Before anyone else , the artist himself should experience delightful surprises on a project . I probably won ’ t call something as art if it ’ s entirely predictable .