Strange Times: An Exhibit by Wiji Lacsamana & Yvette Tan

There are strange times in every child’s life, times when reality blurs with imagination. Most children forget this when they enter adulthood. Some, like Lila, chose to live with its scars.

Strange Times

All children have been told at one time or another by their mothers not to do certain things, go to certain places, or associate with certain people. But every child will have disobeyed at least one of these warnings, and the consequences will have shaped the people they will eventually become.

Strange Times is a loose chronicle of a girl named Lila who is continually disobeying her mother’s warnings. Choosing to err on the side of imagination and exploration, Lila takes risks and lives with the consequences, which can run from the dark to the delightful.

The exhibit is a collaboration between The Curious Studio’s Wiji Lacsamana and award-winning horror writer Yvette Tan, with Tan writing a sentence, Lacsamana painting what she envisioned, and Tan creating a story from the resulting painting and rendering it in calligraphy.

You are all invited to the exhibit of Wiji Lacsamana and Yvette Tan called Strange Times on February 11, 2012 at the Pablo X located at 2289 Pasong Tamo Extension, UPRC III Building, Makati City. Wiji Lacsamana is a tattoo artist and freelance graphic illustrator and Yvette Tan is a multi-awarded Manila based horror writer.