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Chasing Dreams 23 Painting

Michael Vincent Manalo

Taiwan

Painting, Acrylic on Canvas

Size: 10 W x 10 H x 1 D in

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ABOUT THE ARTWORK

“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.” ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations The act of pursuing dreams brings a sense of vitality and aliveness to your life. It’s fun. It’s exciting. It’s invigorating. You shift from merely existing, to truly living. Although, some people would say that chasing your dreams isn’t practical or dream chasing is for kids, not for adults. When you put these points into perspective, then that means if you work in a big corporation, then you are living the dream of someone else's, not yours. If you didn’t want to become a surgeon but you became one anyway, you didn’t fulfill your own dreams. However, you may have fulfilled your parents’ dream of being parents to a surgeon. If it isn’t your dream to get a loan to buy two cars, a big house, and have 1.7 children, but you do so anyways, you’re not fulfilling your dreams but might be fulfilling the dreams of your bank’s shareholders who profit from your decision. The point isn’t to argue that you should or should not be fulfilling dreams. The point is that you ALREADY are chasing dreams. The only question that’s up for debate is WHOSE dreams are you fulfilling? Yours or someone else's? If you want to see more work, you can check out my instagram page: @michaelvmanalo

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Painting:

Acrylic on Canvas

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One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:

10 W x 10 H x 1 D in

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Born in Manila, Philippines in 1986. I am a visual artist who recently focuses on acrylic paintings, photo-manipulation and installations. In my work, the subjects are represented through a mix of imagined and realistic images, playing with the expectations of the viewer and raising questions about the role that human emotions play in memory. The scenes reflect on psychological impulses and on the way they are depicted and fused with everyday reality. My photographs and paintings explore the traditional boundaries of visual representation, where the creative powers of the unconscious are unleashed to reveal a different reality. In the past I have exhibited in several countries - Australia, England, Germany, Georgia, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, Philippines, Poland, Serbia, South Korea, Taiwan, UK and USA. I have also won a few prizes like the 2010 1st prize in the Digital Art Category at the Art Museum of Chianciano Terme, Italy and 2011 Best Photography Illustration from The Redmond Digital Arts Festival in Washington, USA, 2015 2nd place in the Secret Art Prize from the Curious Duke Gallery in London and Nominated for the APBF Signature Art Prize of 2014 from the Singapore Art Museum. I was also named as one of 2014 and 2017 Asia's Top Ten Most Inspiring Visual Artists in Asia by the Top 10 Publications in Malaysia. I was also a 2020 Arte Laguna Prize Finalist and recently I’ve worked with GIANT to create bicycles that are based on the stories and life experiences using bicycles of people that work in the cycling company GIANT. He currently lives in Taichung, Taiwan where he recently has been doing a lot of public art installations.

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