To promote local artistry and ecotourism, the Provincial Government of Camiguin in partnership with the Department of Tourism (DOT-10) showcases 80 paintings of local artists from the province and Cagayan de Oro City in Shards: Sea to Shores Treasures, a CDO-Camiguin art collaboration which will end on Jan. 3, next year at DOT Regional Office, Cagayan de Oro City.
“This is like a very good example of how we can clean up our shore and doing something about it like turning trash into art,” DOT-10 Regional Director Marie Elaine Unchuan said.
Michael Bacol, a renowned artist in the country, said the five-by-six-inch artworks used different art medium such as markers, poster paints, watercolor and more. The ceramic objects or shards give the painting a three-dimensional effect, Bacol added.
“With that piece of glass or pottery, the artist uses his or her imagination to make it whole again and this is something amazing,” Unchuan said.
Shards or sea pottery are the broken remains of domestic and international ceramics which have ended up in the ocean. Over the years, they are tumbled and smoothed by the action of sand and waves then they are washed up on the shores of Camiguin.
The shards come from plates, vases, bowls and other types of ceramic objects from all corners of the globe.
“Gahimo pud mi ug laing artworks aside from paintings. Gahimuon namo siya into mosaics, wind chimes ug embellishment sa structures,” Cocoy Bajuyo of Treasures Camiguin said. (pia x)
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