How Coloring Solved my Problems

By Royanni Miel M. Hontucan

Metaphorically, the intricate designs of the coloring books are everyone’s life: it could be a garden with complicated structures, a wild animal with complex details or a weird black and white masterpiece which you cannot understand but when you step back, it is still beautiful. The crayons to be used are the thoughts, actions, emotions and choices, which each one of us has the power to use to color our intricate canvasses. You will be frustrated in filling up the black-and-white spaces but it will be worth it in the end because I realized, beautiful things happened after an exhausting process of diligent coloring and nothing good will come easy in REAL LIFE either.

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Creating had always been my outlet to cope with the daily struggles in life since I tend to overthink about almost everything! I think there was never a day in my life wherein I didn’t result to the arts in one way or another such as writing poetry at the margin of my notebook or at a tissue paper at a coffee shop about infinite imaginings of love stories, composing lyrics without a tune during shower or simply sketching an apple or the ice cream I ate at lunch.

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Making Stress an Art: Stress Girl (An art exhibit by Dolly Jane Sordilla)

By Royanni Miel M. Hontucan

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“This art exhibit was my way of expressing my stress as a graduating student (Fine Arts Major of Silliman University),” says the artist Dolly Jane Sordilla. In an interview with the Weekly Sillimanian, she described her works (created through various mediums) as “honest and unapologetic thoughts everyone has” under intense pressure and  “overpowering anxiety” that one feels in their last year of college.

Because she didn’t have the option of abandoning her thesis, she opted to formulate her thesis through making stress as an art.

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Hazards and Harmony: An Art Exhibit by Ramsid Labe

By Royanni Miel M. Hontucan

Photography by Adriel Zane C. Maxino

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Before the Exhibit. Your very own author meeting the artist, Ramsid Lebe, with a thousand ballpens near his two-hour self-mural at the Silliman Hall last Feb. 19.

A thousand ballpen covers were pieces that created the robots of Hazards and Harmony. According to the artist, Ramsid Labe, he started creating art with ballpens since he was young. “It’s like a tribute to where I started,” he added.

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Ambironment: We will Knit the Seas

Article and Photography by Royanni Miel M. Hontucan

Photo Contributions By Shama Mongcopa and Sommer Buyante

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The winning piece at “Ambironment: A Creative Rebellion for the Seas” by the Kapunungan sa mga Mass Communicators (KMC).  The event was organized by the Silliman University Corps of Campus Ambassadors.

The Silliman University (SU) Corps of Campus Ambassadors organized the inter-organizations painting contest entitled “Ambironment: A Creative Rebellion for the Seas” at the Amphitheatre on Nov. 5 to generate ocean conservation awareness.

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