Geo/centr/e/i/city: Ferdinand Doctolero

Ferdinand Doctolero used digital tools in Angolo and Anarabrab (2001) to re-interpret an ancient myth and to re-work an old illustration he had done in analog media. The myth as told: "Thousands of years ago, there came to our land a gigantic couple named Angolo and Anarabrab, who, when they walked, the earth shook, and when they spoke, their voices sounded like thunder. One day, they fought over who will get the greater number of pearls that they gathered in the Sulu Sea. The Philippines then was one great island, but after the fight the one island broke up into more than 7,000 pieces." Doctolero surmises that the country's fault lines were a result of these quarrels. Producing work especially for a web-specific exhibition, he explains, "I do approve of the new alternative space for exhibition. . . . The difference between audiences at a physical gallery and on the Internet in my opinion is only in the sense of smell."

See http://www.fineartforum.org/Gallery/2001/geocentricity/doctolero.
(© Ferdinand Doctolero

Block 3, Lot 15 Laurel Street
Malacañang Village
Parañaque
Metro Manila 1715
Philippines.
E-mail: doctolero@pacific.net.ph.