Travelogue in Nature through Mural Paintings

Travelogue in Nature

through Mural Paintings

            "Art is never passive, it is progressive and abreast,

to keep its role even with man's lofty goals." avr
     Mural Complex by Dr Abe V Rotor

San Vicente, Ilocos Sur

Annelyn Dumal-in a SPED teacher and her children Roverick John 10, and Ma 

Ellaine 6 pose before a floor-to-wall mural on nature at the author's residence in 

San Vicente, Ilocos Sur. This section depicts the Ilocos uplands and 

meandering streams. 

Mother and children on a nature adventure on a mural,

respite from too much work in school;

A break from the computer and social media exposure; 

go for the arts and find a better goal.  

 Young visitors led by youthful Paul Verzosa, all art enthusiasts, 
visit the gallery room where some thirty paintings are displayed.  

A gallery of paintings, conventional and modern,

across different movements and schools;

Art is never passive, it is progressive and abreast,

to keep its role even with man's lofty goals.    

 

These adjoining murals were inspired by scenic views in the Ilocos 

region particularly in Santa, Ilocos Sur and Luna, Ilocos Norte. 

By the craggy seashore,

 behind a lighthouse in ruin, 

  history stands still,

while nature prevails sans end,

and the sands of time

keep on blowing

evermore.

  

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 Roverick John 10, and Ma Ellaine 6 pose before a restored late 18th 

century brick wall integrated with a floor mural depicting a moat 

or trench around a castle.

An old brick wall, a make-believe moat,

a medieval castle in mind;

ruins kept alive in postmodern times,

the past and present to bind.  

  

Dolls no more for Elaine, but what is a better substitute than to keep close to nature, rather than the cell phone, and the habit of loafing?. This is the message of these mural details.

Love the trees, lianas and vines climbing,

thick cozy mats of moss and lichen. 

bromeliads, orchids and ferns clinging, 

stir the sense of  wonder in children.  

 

Queenie 8. poses before a wall mural painted by the author 

at the Living with Nature Center, San Vicente Ilocos Sur.

Make believe scene but it exists outside the wall;

go find it to where it truly lies; 

don't delay before the cruel hand takes its toll

in the name of progress in disguise. 

Overlooking the Underground River in Puerto Princesa, Palawan

It's A River of No Return, as the old song goes.  

But to where does it go, where does it end?

Would it ever find time along the way to pause? 

It tells, we all pass this way but once, my friend.

Queenie In the midst of a tropical rainforest

If ever there's a semblance of Milton's Paradise 
Lost and Regained here on  Earth,
it's the rainforest biome in diversity and size,
greatly reduced  to a dearth. 

Yawning crevice, Pinsal Falls (Sta Maria, Ilocos Sur) in summer.

What is beauty is indeed abstract in any definition,
even a weathered cliff foretelling its demise
is beautiful: dry in summer, rampaging in monsoon;
it's the same to the innocent or to the wise.  

Hundred Islands (Alaminos, Pangasinan)

Sitting on one of the islands makes her a Gulliver
in Lilliput as they appear from the air
like gems strewn over, but would they last forever?
It doesn't matter to the lovely and fair. ~