Artist's Statement:

The mind is a subtle, multi-dimensional environment of images, symbols, words, feelings and emotions. It is a complex self-organizing and patterning system. An active mechanism that morphs and manifests in limitless forms, fusing, synthesizing and juxtaposing images, words emotions, etcetera in seemingly random and senseless ways, wherein everything is inter-related and interconnected, stringed with a thread visible only to wide and open minds.

My paintings are frozen fractions of the mind's activity - recreated intuitively on flat canvasses of acrylics. Surreal pictures where reality and fantasy waltz in the depths of dreams, daydreams and the subconscious. Each painting is open-ended. There is no fixed interpretation or definite meaning. All the elements can be taken literally or symbolically acoording to the whims and personal experiences of the viewer.

Start:	Jul 19, '08 6:30p
End:	Aug 19, '08
Location:	Bliss Cafe - Hotel Elizabeth, Gibraltar Rd., Baguio City

Rishab's 6th Solo Painting and Installation Exhibit

Start:	Jul 19, '08 6:30p
End:	Aug 19, '08
Location:	Bliss Cafe - Hotel Elizabeth, Gibraltar, Baguio City

Rishab's 6th Solo Painting Exhibition

an article by Elizabeth Lolarga

an article by Padmapani Perez

Start:	Dec 15, '07 5:00p
End:	Jan 15, '08 5:00p
Location:	Cafe by the Ruins

Rishab's 5th solo painting exhibition.

Start:	Nov 8, '07 6:30p
End:	Nov 28, '07
Location:	Yuchengco Museum, G/F RCBC Plaza, Cor. Ayala & Gil Puyat Avenues, Makati City

A group exhibition featuring the works of AGUINALDO, ALANGUI, ELMEDA, MANG-OSAN, SABADO and RISHAB TIBON. Photographs by WIG TYSMANS and works of the National Artist BENCAB.

Music by PINIKPIKAN BAND.

 

The Baguio Writers Group in cooperation with Baguio Country Club and Smart Communications Inc. presents a poetry symposium on "To Do or to Be: How to Make a Poem" on Sept. 15, Saturday, 2-5 p.m. at the Wolfson Room of the Club, South Drive, Baguio City.

 

Panelists include Marjorie Evasco, Sid Hildawa, Marra Lanot, Francis and Priscilla Macansantos, Edgar Maranan and Alfred Yuson.

 

In the same evening the writers group will host an invitational concert, "Jazz for Tonight," at 7 p.m. at Par 7 of the Country Club. Featured performers are Jacqui Magno, Gou de Jesus, Richard Cariño, Desiree Caluza, Butch Cando, Egay Buñing, Joanifer Abubo, Enrico Subido, Ivan Cruz and On-Call.

 

Seats are limited. To reserve call or text 0927-989-0191.

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framing a tilted horizon

naked and devoid of luster

a crippled gothic window

cling to a rusted hinge

succumb to ivy's embrace

and her poison lullaby

his numb spirit wallow

in the mire of unknowing

while the altar of doom awaits

his imminent fall

and marriage to oblivion

 

lurking in desolation

on the cold marble floor

shattered mirrors

a million fiery eyes

sleeplessly waiting

waiting

devouring shrouded corpses

marching in the sky

ravens on their urgent flight

blazing wrath of the sun god

piercing through the crumbling wall

deadly glances

devouring fragments of time

devouring their own reflections

 

weaving through staggering doors

and lamenting empty halls

echoes of freezing wind

whisper

hymns of melancholy

gnawing melancholy

sending stray butterflies

fleeing in faceless fear

back into their cocoons

floating in stillness

back to their nightmares

in the darkest side of limbo

 

-rishab