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Tuesday, April 05, 2005
If you aim to please
By Keith Aparri Bacalso
You simply can’t please every single one of them, not with the plurality of ideas, opinions and whatnot.
And Abdul Remland Tapsi wouldn’t be the first to complain. This, an infobit made a little obvious by his first solo art exhibit entitled, “Pleasing Personality Disorder.”
“In every society, ang norms kay naa gyud, unya para mana maka please ta sa society (there are norms which are there for us to follow in order to please our society),” the artist states. In excess is disorder. “Some go out of their way in order to be pleasing, it is already vain, dysfunctional.” Indeed, he adds, “the trend has always been to remain attractive, young…we try to avoid growing old and dying when we really can’t, anyway. We see that in the magazines, television, etc. Everybody is catching on, thus the rise of the metrosexual. Somehow, it even antagonizes what or who doesn’t fit into that schema.”
“When I took on this concept for my exhibit, I had to consider what other people would think. My college professors were a significant consideration, my family, my classmates, my friends – they remain the primary audience of my art.” He admits it took him some time to figure it out, but in the course of it all, “I really had fun experimenting with the textures and how to put my ideas in canvas. And not just with paint.”
Not surprisingly, his exhibit raised a few eyebrows, “I just take time to explain what I mean when some people simply can’t understand. That in our vanity is decay. That by indulging in the disorder, we worsen our society and manifest what we avoid – in trying to please everyone, we disappoint all.”
And when the raised eyebrows make way to a little open-mindedness, the artist is pleased.
(April 5, 2005 issue)
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