STORYBOOK FOR A CAUSE: Artwork & Life Stories

"Create to heal the earth! Art is power. Art is prayer. When you recycle. When you choose to show love, to fight for justice, to bring healing, to bring out what is good in others." Excerpts from Dee smith "Do Art: When you avoid cruelty and dishonesty and waste. When ym ou are outraged. When you speak out. When you give. When you consider the generations to come. When you protest to the oppressors and encourage those who feel the cutting edge of injustice. There is a tree that all the prophets see, and whenever you let your love show through art, you make the flowers grow." "Art is  a prayer, and our  sculptures and our  paintings give life. Is the  place they had been exhibited  not at all  maintained? It should be. But never mind, as long as it is  not ...

“In separateness lies the world's great misery, in compassion lays the world's true strength." ~Buddha Once upon a time, there were two huts that were built in separate villages. They were mountain ranges apart, too far away from each other. Neither knew each one, until one day when they were boarded plank by plank and reconstructed side by side each other on a cool and exquisite place they called Brent Cordillera Hill. One was called Sagada, and the other Ifugao. Each one regarded the other as a stranger.  They resented each other’s encroachment in what they thought was each owns territorial space.  They did not talk. They lived in silence. Years went by, and both felt no contentment and happiness in their hearts. Both Sagada and Ifugao knew that their posts would soon give way, and their roofs would soon crumble and fall. They expected that they get i...