PATRICIA EUSTAQUIO (PHILIPPINES, B. 1977)

Painted after her landmark solo show Death to the Major, Viva Minor, Pulo III is the third and last piece from her shadow series, inspired by her regular visits to the similarly named island in the Philippines, off the Pacific coast.

Pulo III is a work that focuses on the beauty within the mundane; the way in which the light falls over portion of foliage, throwing an abstraction of dispersed patterns across the ground. Eustaquio draws upon the art history traditions of majestic landscape painting in Pulo III, but in a way that never visually presents nature to the viewer, merely suggesting its presence through the index of a shadow.