Oil on canvas
48″ x 36″
2016

$10,000

In this painting, the artist would like to convey the traditional process of harvesting coconut in his hometown, the City of San Pablo, Laguna. The main subject of the painting is a young guy removing the husks from the coconut using a sharp pointy vertical metal framed on a wooden stand or husk peeler. Next to him is another man doing the same task, they’re called “Magtatapas”. Between them is a young boy collecting all the coconut together in one place using a long rod with a pointed metal tip, he is called “Mag-iipon”. Further on the background is the man using a long pole with a sharp curved knife to pull the coconut from the palm trees, he is called “Magkakawit”.

Another character in the painting is an old man on a carabao cart collecting all the unhusked coconut to be delivered to the market, he is called “Magniniyog”. This is a very common scene in the coconut plantation as the Artist remembered with traditional Nipa hut in the Barrio of San Pablo City.

Bahay Kubo at Sari-sari
Oil on canvas
48” x 36”
2020
A private collection of Mr and Mrs Jay and Helen Tagorda of Ajax Ontario