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Kristina Guison
Ugat, Sunga, Bunga
Artist Statement
The narrative that I chose to work on is the the condition of the environment and its human resources. I want to depict the ever present state of violence in the aspects of creation and destruction, both meshed between nature and people. The romantic and oftentimes depressing story of our detachment with spirituality and nature, is not a story of despair but of hope and repentance. The title of the piece is “Ugat, Sanga, Bunga”. The flow of any story, I believe, is cyclical, not linear. It’s a cyclical progress, no matter how bleak the current state is. The past explains our present, the present will lead to the future and that future will be our past, once we’ve gone through it. Everything is overlapping and interconnected. The story of the people is always bleeding into the story of the land.
Artist Biography
Kristina Guison is a visual artist currently residing in Mississauga, Ontario. She was born and raised in the Philippines. She took up Production Design in Theatre and Film for three years in College of St. Benilde, Philippines, then transferred to Sheridan, Trafalgar campus, Oakville, Ontario for the Visual and Creative Arts 2-year program. She started being active in the Kapisanan Philippine Centre when she joined the CLUTCH program, a 6-month arts-based program for young Filipina women that deals with the expression of Filipina identity through a wide range of multi-disciplinary arts. The KAMALAYAN program is also one of the programs in Kapisanan that she’s involved in. The political, social, economical and cultural aspects of the past, present and possible future of the Philippines interests her a lot. The KAMALAYAN program that is in community partnership with Migrante is shedding light on that context. Her artworks are often inspired by the stark contrasts, cyclical processes and strange ironies. She uses a lot of layers, metaphors and sometimes subliminal images in order to illustrate the complexity and simplicity of the world as she sees it.