How Ben Simbulan Turned Nostalgia Into an Award-Winning Painting (Metrobank MADE) скачать в хорошем качестве

How Ben Simbulan Turned Nostalgia Into an Award-Winning Painting (Metrobank MADE)

Ben Simbulan shares the personal story behind his Special Citation at the Metrobank Art & Design Excellence (MADE) competition. Rooted in nostalgia, the featured painting captures an intimate moment with his grandmother, transforming memory, grief, and lived experience into painterly form. The conversation explores Simbulan’s application journey, competition insights, and creative process, revealing how emotional memory becomes a powerful artistic language for emerging Filipino painters. Ben Simbulan is a Filipino painter whose practice centers on nostalgia and memory as emotional material. His work transforms intimate, lived experiences into painterly narratives that explore grief, remembrance, and personal history. Simbulan received a Special Citation at the Metrobank Art & Design Excellence (MADE) competition and was accepted into the Tuklas Fellowship. Through a process grounded in memory-driven imagery and reflective observation, his paintings investigate how ordinary moments evolve into enduring emotional landscapes.