Artwork Description

“Tribute to Creativity” is the artist’s way of paying homage to her hailed inspiration, the well-known, Batanes-based visual artist Pacita Abad. Pacita constantly experimented with ideas that moved her beyond the confines of the traditional two-dimensional surface by developing trapunto painting, a technique of stitching and stuffing her painted canvases to give them a three-dimensional sculptural effect. According to Rodriguez, Pacita was her breathing supply of artistic inspiration and this befitting synergy of Indonesian Wayang (puppet) figures and trapunto-like recreations is but a small tribute to the immeasurable outpour of inspiration that the artist has given her.