Back in 2012 here in the Philippines, we experienced a heavy storm that
caused a flood that penetrated into our houses in Manila some years ago.
This sort of thing usually happens once in a blue moon but it isn't a
big deal from where we live, of course a good house cleaning would ensue
after these kinds of natural calamity and that I did. But before the
herculean cleaning began, I thought of an idea and figured I'd do
something crazy as well.
Also here in the Philippines, we have a
magazine for men called FHM. Other countries have them as well but here,
most of the women they feature are Filipina models, athletes and
actresses that we have and so I got the idea (since I had lots of copies
of FHM) to spruce up my studio and turn these beautiful women on pages
to my wallpaper, and that I did.
After five years the studio is
now devoid of these images because my main reason of doing this was so
that I could be inspired to paint wherever I look, but it turns out that
it did indeed inspire me for a while, but it also got me more tired
(wink* wink*). I decided to tear them all down after two years or so and
was back to putting regular artworks of my own and of others on my wall
and from time to time still putting up photos of models on them but only
a piece or so after that.
I also did this because I was looking
for the one for me, my soul mate, and thought that laying all these
pictures of women out would either attract her to me or even give me
more motivation to find her. But alas, only after getting rid of these
magazine pages of women on my wall that I met and found the one who
would become my wife. I guess sometimes, when you look too hard you
neglect to see someone who is in front of you all along. :)