The artist with his work: “I am the original content creator in my paintings, while with a book, I just help shape it for its final purpose.”
“Historically, portraits have primarily memorialized the known, carrying with them representations that outlasted even the persons they hoped to represent,” he writes. “Based on old photographs taken in the past … the portraits are annotated to tell … maybe the lost stories of the subjects themselves. The women in the portraits, who seemed originally nameless, are now named …
Thus, you find dramatic portraits, with both bright and subtle colors, of women posed in exquisite Filipiniana, but with surreal, meaningful twists; as I told Felix, it’s like Justiniano Asunción or Simón Flores having coffee with René Magritte. From “Bella Inocencia’s” beautifully embroidered blouse grows the head of a tamsi, or sunbird, as mentioned in the 1898 song “Nuestra Patria” by Gen. Jose Alejandrino.
“Twenty years ago, it was extremely difficult to just be an illustrator, so I expanded into book design. I can only say I’m blessed by the Lord; I just had to wait for the perfect time. I do wish I could have been painting more, but with the responsibilities of a being a parent and a husband, and with the projects we were getting, eventually painting got shelved. I just started thinking of the books as my ‘canvas,’ and I did my best.
“It was a challenge at first, then I started enjoying it,” Felix says of the work. “Of course, it’s a different creative process. With books, my aim is to interpret or translate the content into a beautiful package that can be read and consumed. It’s not my content, and I am just a collaborator. In painting, I do everything, figuring out the content, and interpreting it myself in a format that is appropriate.
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