Art Camp October 10, 2026
Art Camp October 10, 2026 Rossano Capili’s (aka Sonny) story begins in 1969, with oil. No, not the painter’s kind. As a Grade 5 student in Tondo, he cleaned jeepneys for his allowance, hands slick with motor oil. “The streets where I was born became my workplace, and the oil was my final touch on the steel floors of Sarao jeepneys,” he shares. While scrubbing metal, he watched folk artists paint ceilings and bodies in riotous colour, and something shifted. “My curiosity led me to mimic their techniques and designs at a young age. What my family saw as just cleaning jeepneys, I found to be an expression of art. Little did they know it was just the beginning of my journey.” — Hannah Jo Uy Associate Art Writer, Editor Debut LIVE, Manila A Critique The presentation is effective as narrative framing. By pairing the miniature jeepney with a first-person origin story written in accessible, slightly romantic prose, the installation converts a humble industrial object int...
