The gigantic, 16-foot tall Alice sculpture took around seven months to complete. She said she chose to execute it on “a grand and grey scale to capture the overwhelming emotions associated with grief and to make a bold statement that can’t be ignored.”
In this current show, visual artist Tin Garcia uses Ming Dynasty-inspired pottery, reproductions sourced from a reliable thrift shop, to make a statement on the West Philippine Sea issue and the increasing presence and influence of the Chinese in the Philippines.
In eight oil on shaped canvas paintings (two of them diptychs), painter Tin F. Garcia expresses “the surreal and illogical goings-on in this country and everywhere else in the world.” She uses Lewis Caroll’s Alice in Wonderland books as her metaphor for they “resonate even more deeply, with even more creative people.”
