Armineonila M.'s Blog

Featuring some of my new artworks for the Art of Compassion Project exhibit at the VegFestUK kicking off in August. Please have a look.

Lines of Lila

Since I’m back to painting and catching up on other stuff, I’m also all hyped at getting back to my advocacy. These new untitled artworks will be some of my entries to the upcoming exhibit of The Art of Compassion Project, a vegan artists collective, at the upcoming VegFestUK online art auction in August.

I love this artists collectiv...

I asked a friend what had kept her occupied during the lockdown, and she said she had been staving off the impulse of writing down every single moment she had spent alone inside her apartment watching the ghost town-ish neighborhood by her window. She’s once a zealous escapist.

Highlighted in the article The Birth of Pandemic Art, artworks that had sprouted these past few months, particularly on Instagram, study the many facets of COVID19 in the socio-cultural context more than the histor...

If you are an Ilonggo who suddenly finds interest in cooking through lockdowns and curfews due to COVID19 but can’t seem to find a proper app or blog that is free and highlights exclusively Filipino recipes, then this video is made for you.

ManolTube, a YouTube podcast discussing the latest inventions, discoveries and whatnot in the Hiligaynon language features some of the most famous and go-to Filipino food apps and blogs. It tackles free iOS and Android apps that are well-known among ...

Did you know that black cats are among the least adoptable cats in shelters, besides elderly cats and cats with disability? This is the result of centuries old superstitions associated with black cats. This tribute sheds light on how black cats are as beautiful and unique as other cats.

Black cats are as unique as other cats

I once had a tuxedo cat whom I picked from the street. He had ringworm and I eventually contracted it. But he was such a loving kitten that would sleep next to ...

It’s been a long hiatus but I’m finally gradually getting back to blogging and content creation. Unfortunately, this is partly due to the COVID-19 pandemic and most of us are stuck at home trying to make sense of everything that’s happening around us. I just wish everyone is safe and in good health. I also wish to extend my deepest and sincerest sympathies to those who have lost their loved ones as I did. Just hang in there.

While on lockdown, I was able to produce a YouTube channel on poetry...

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Grace Han, founder of Towards a Compassionate Nation (TACN), a volunteer-run charity in China, rescued 14 cats and transferred them to Beijing to receive veterinary care and a better chance to be adopted. Some of them were saved from being sold and slaughtered for their meat, skin and fur, while others were previously strays, abandoned due to illness, and were likely ending up being trapped by cat meat traders. Grace and her friend Susana took them to Beijing for a better chance at life. In...

[image error]I’m finally up and about. After a long break, I figured I’d focus on my art sites here and here, then convert this blog into a public service platform, instead. I’d still drop poems and quotes every now and then, of course.

But since my laptop broke down two days ago, I’m up for the challenge of blogging from my phone. I know it’s like writing under the moonlight, blah and blah. But, hey, what choice do I have?

Have you blogged from your phone? Tell me how it went.

And, finally, we came up with a more compound one, attempting to study, if not defy, the limits of style, structure, and media, thus, departing from the margins while keeping space, as we know it, undefined, so to speak. With the book’s dynamic approach to an age when we are all subject to compartmentalized outlooks and fed with a prepackaged sense of identity, it’s a challenge to insist on finding meaning and value in ubiquity.

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Sometimes, while you’re trying to outsmart time behind your work desk, you meet with your thoughts and ask questions you dare not ask your kitties. Then you try to find a way to impart that conversation to any surface you can find. And when you do find it, the universe simply opens up its doors to usher you in.

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Lost Rhyme, ink on paper, March 9, 2017.

View more sketches and scribbles here.

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Piso pa rin ba?
O mas malamig pa sa piseta?
Ang agahan, pananghalian
at hapunan na pinagkasya
sa isang maliit kakarampot na supot
para ipagpalit sa pangarap
na papsikel, tutunawin lang
nang panandalian, isisikmurang
sa paparating na pantawid sa tag-init.

Pabili po ng ice candy…
Piso pa rin ba?

-Armineonila M., 2017

 

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