Three kinds of lines and 300 hundred sculptures

On view at the Cultural Center of the Philippines’s Pasilyo Vicente Manansala is the solo exhibition of Russel Trinidad, also known as Doktor Karayom, comprised of 300 sculptures under the title Linya.

Explaining his exhibit’s chosen name, Trinidad relates that there are different types of lines: “There are those that are horizontal, most straight or wavy, sometimes spiral, zigzag and broken. All help in producing a nice drawing. Being a practitioner of the arts, we find ourselves in love with these elements, these things that enhance the imagination to fuel the building and fulfillment of plans and intentions, and the crossing of that thin line between what we think is real to what we want as our reality.”