"This show began when I found myself carving waves. Just a simple one, found usually on the beach or shoreline. Quickly, I realized I had only two options to do this: Take a picture of a wave and carve that frozen moment; Or, understand what waves are, in the sense of Physics,
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​I favored the second option. If for nothing else but the fact my works in carving always start with the wood. I had the wood and it was already more or less close to the form I wanted. I would have to build my vision around that." 
​​Otherwise, I just need to discover how to carve this wave in front of me, how to capture its form frozen not in an instant of time (for in the sense of quantum physics, that would not give us the true picture) but still there: This is what my wave looks like, though I cannot know why.
HASUHAS
2023 mixed media
​​Koantum Balud is our translation of the words Quantum Wave. It is a play of sound rather than a direct translation. “Koan” is a Bisaya word to mean anything at all, universally useful to work as euphemism or refer to something with an indeterminate or difficult to understand meanings; or when one comes to a point of having nothing to say. The word is a construction of the texts “koan” and “tum”- the antecedent syllable of Quantum.  Koantum…

STRING THEORY

mixed media 2023
I have to remind myself that this begins from sculpting waves, which in turn derived from the thematic idea of music, this thought leading to the idea of sound and waves in general. Which idea, I always found intriguing not the least because I grew up all my life with music and the sea always within hearing distance or not too far away from me if I was ever away at all. The nature of islands…

​The fact of waves show us how we are linked to each other inexorably and in a most profound way - this link cutting even through time.

​I dream with the patience of a woodcarver

Raymund L Fernandez