Angelologist Cecilia Gutierrez & Me during the Anghel Series exhibit in 1997.

A LAMENT to a lost dear loved friend. I've been in a silence for more than 10 years now in the visual art scene. It's more like I've been hibernating or perhaps turning my grand back to the world of the creatives and the mysticism. It was last February 2006, I decided to grip back again my grit and steer it up to go varooming back again in the circuit, honing my surreal grasp and mystifying soul to catch up and pick up the pieces of what I left behind - the Anghel series arts. Actually, its not just the essence of getting back again in the baffling world of the visual arts but as well as taking the consideration of what our dearly adored Angelologist Ms. Cecilia Guitierrez said about our first surreal mixed media series of works. It's not just to exhibit my latest works but as well as to please a very dear loved friend and known Angelologist Cecilia Gutierrez, which I haven't seen for a long years now. If she know that I'm going to take back the Anghel series again, this time she will be very glad if I tell her that I didn't kill the angels just like she noticed way back in 1997. In reality, I'm not an angel killer, it's just my surreal mind and my artistic ideas that came forth during those days. Cecilia, also an angel visual artist, really loves to see Angels in serene, glad and peaceful work of art.

Two of the Anghel Art Series in 1997 - surreal mixed media in large format.

I'm just about to stage the third series of the Anghel mixed media when a dear believer of angels in a text message says Cecila is up there…I can't believe it first but the news said, Mrs. Gutierrez mother of actress-environmentalist Chin Chin Gutierrez died of cardiac arrest before midnight of Friday, January 22. She was 64. I then also find out that Cecilia had been suffering from diabetes, as well as lung and kidney ailments and bedridden for the past two years. It was really a lost, but to sum it up, its a clear vision of redemption. Our dear angelologist Cecilia Gutierrez is really up there walking with the angels and I know that she's smiling not only for me but as well as to those who believe that angels of God are out there, guiding and lighting our path, ruling and guarding our souls. 

For a certain reason, I know that she already realized why for that instance I did hmmm, kill the angels not for an artistic intentions but for what I really want others to be aware of angels. I'm not sounding or closing to be like the "hollier than thou", I just want to deliver a message given to me in an visual form, that we, us, the humanity are killing the angels as we go on with our materially-driven mundane lives.

Nevertheless, Cecilia is up there, so there's no need for me to please her and stage a comeback in the art world with my new Anghel art works as she gladly wanted it to be. She already knew it, she already seen it…a dear loved angelologist Cecilia is up there…so there's no need to kill the angels, again.