19 Jun, 2008
ANGUD: A FOREST ONCE
This environmental art piece is about our personal accountability in the continuing denudation of our forests.
These pieces represent the denudation of our forest that, in turn, cause mudslides and land erosion, bringing tragic consequences.
Angud is the end part of tree trunks discarded during illegal logging operations. After a tree is felled, a hole is bored at one of its end so that the timber may be pulled with a rope (usually by carabao) out of the forests. The end part with the hole, called angud, is then sawn off and discarded for charcoal.
The nylon ropes connecting the pieces to one another allude to the way the logs were pulled out of the forests, but more importantly suggesting diverse elements in an ecosystem are interconnected like a complex web.
Luis Yee Jr. is the artist of the environmental art piece. He is more known as Junyee. He has carved himself a niche as an elite artist in the Philippines.
He is one of the most awarded and a major pillar of the Philippine contemporary art world. He is a pioneer in the use of indegenous materials in contemporary art making and installation art.
Junyee represented the Philippines in many prestigious art exhibitions are regularly invited in the Paris Biennale, Indian Triennale, Asia Pacific Triennale, Havana Biennale and other international events.
