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GLENN MARTINEZ
GLENN MARTINEZ
Objects and Nostalgia: An Introduction to the Assemblage Art of Glenn Martinez
When I started my travel and culture blog in 2008, I was also beginning to fill my young family’s living space with art and along with it, object traffic also increased in our home. Every trip, I come home with all sorts of heritage memento: A sculpture from Ermita, a painting from an artist’s studio in Laguna, various kinds of anting-anting from Quiapo, disparate body parts of wooden religious statuettes from Bacolor, tribal and folk arts from the cultural communities of the Cordilleras, historic relics and artifacts from a roadside swap meet in Baliuag, Bulacan.
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