Collection: Victor Dumaguing

Victor’s subconscious is completely operative (seemingly at will) that it has overridden basic consciousness. Unlike common persons whose aesthetic sensibilities are a latent function, his daily dialect and casual jargon always point to some unmarked beyond. He says of his creative process: I don’t know what I am doing in my work… the subconscious is at work… I don’t always know what the painting will look like in the end.” He works according to ideas that, more complex than logic can disambiguate, move him as energy. Oil, acrylic and mixed media—instruments are is primary in his life; “Art is the ventilation in times of suffocation. Victor received formal training in the Ford Academy of Arts in Davao and is most influenced by Veristic and Austistic Surrealism.