Diokno Pasilan’s art stems from his community involvement.  He moved to San Vicente, Palawan in the late 1990s, a place he still visits every year, traveling annually from his current base of Perth, Australia. The core of works for Here, There, and Everywhere, now running at The Drawing Room, started out as a project in 2003 to provide senior citizens of the town with ID photos for their Philhealth cards.  As evidenced in this exhibit, those seemingly innocuous photos make for forceful portraits.  Diokno has blown up a selection, transforming what originally had been intended as run-of-the-mill identification tags into the mixed media wall-bound works he has now installed in the gallery. Continue reading →