‘House of Comfort In the Sky With You’: An art exhibit

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PUBLISHED ON June 25, 2007 AT 9:08 AM

*House of Comfort In the Sky With You*

*Alma Quinto
Miho Nakanishi*

** *Exhibition: June 25 – **July 5, 2007*

*University of the Philippines Faculty** **Center** Galerias 1 and 2*

*Curated by: Flaudette May V. Datuin*

*Artist Talk and Workshop, June 25, **2.30-6pm*

*Alma Quinto *

*Miho Nakanishi*

This exhibition presents elements from Quinto’s *House of Comfort* and
Nakanishi’s *In The Sky With You* workshops - core activities of *trauma*, *
interrupted*, an international art exhibition on show at the Cultural
Centerof the Philippines till July 29, 2007.

This show at UP FC Galerias presents ‘doodles’ and handcrafted textile
pieces created by participants from communities in the Philippines and
Japan, including survivors of violence and sexual abuse in Leyte,.Bohol,
Dumaguete, Iligan and Dagupan City; street children and orphans in Bulacan;
peace journalists in Cagayan de Oro; prostituted children in Cebu; academics
and Young Moro Professionals in Marawi City, communities devastated by
typhoon Reming in Legaspi and Albay; the elderly and the differently-abled
children in Naga City, children of Japanese fathers and Filipina
entertainers in Manila and Osaka; coastal communities and housewives in
Davao City and Samar and school children of Camiguin, among others.

These workshops begin with visualization techniques and visual arts
exercises resulting in the doodles on show. Once ready, the participants
were asked to draw their dreams and “dream houses” using bond papers and
colored pens. These images on paper are then transformed and transferred (
e.g. stitched and sewn) by the participants onto textile grids using
discarded clothes and simple running stitches. These grids will then form
part of a collapsible “house” – a giant quilt which will return to the
workshop sites, as part of efforts to hammer out more sustainable programs
for healing affected communities, families and individuals.

The *House of Comfort In the Sky With You* is spearheaded by House of
Comfort Art Network, Inc. (ARTHOC) and CRIBS Philippines (Create Responsive
Infants by Sharing), with support from the UP Department of Art Studies,
National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA), Japan Foundation Manila
Office, Global Fund for Women and Kasibulan.

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One Response to “‘House of Comfort In the Sky With You’: An art exhibit”

rose magtubo Says:
July 1st, 2007 at 11:23 pm
At first, I thought that the only purpose of the exhibit was to show the students of UP the works of these children and in line with it to educate us of what was happening in the outside world. A world most of us, UP students, are not familiar with. But one time, I saw UP students “doodling’ their own dreams on paper. Then it hit me, maybe what the exhibit is also trying to say is that dreaming of a better future is for everybody. It does not matter from which country you are, which religion you belong to or whatever happened to your life. Everyone has the right to create and fulfill his own dream.
We all have dreams and by visualizing them we begin to create them. We can not just go on chasing after our dreams; we have to “see” them come true.
The exhibit served as an inspiration for me to always hope for a brighter future. If these children were able to “create” their dreams in spite of what they have gone through, then so can I.

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