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Saturday, May 13, 2023

entry arrow8:00 PM | Tryst at the Creek



This painting by Junjun Montelibano, “Tryst at the Creek,” now on display in the Matinabangon exhibit at Shelter Gallery [ IG: @shelterph ], haunts me. I can’t stop thinking about it. Is it the storytelling quality? Is it the simplicity of the composition that’s disturbed somewhat by the uncanny? Is it the fairy tale-like take of a young girl in white holding flowers, wading in ankle-deep creek water, meeting a freak from some unholy mishmash of that monster rabbit from Donnie Darko and a plague doctor from the Middle Ages — which somehow affirms a nightmare I can never tell my therapist about? And yet it’s also lovely. And frightening. All at once.

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