Visual Artist and Writer
Mikes is a Visual Artist and Writer based in the Philippines. Her art visually communicates in the language of allegories, iconographies and symbolisms; Conveyed through a narrative of moments, situations, concepts, and social dilemmas. The abundant use of vibrant colors in her paintings, and the elements in her artworks, speak of who she is as a person and as an artist and how she relates and reacts to her environment.
PHILOSOPHY OF MIKES’ ART
In the whimsical collision of mystical musings and cartoon slicks lay the art of Mikes, a visual artist whose works anchor on her observation of today’s capricious culture bent on ravenous consumption of contemporary media, and its upshots on our often-neglected spiritual nature. Drawing from the awareness that she was raised by Seussical characters on television, Mikes incorporates quintessential commercial elements to her own style– crisp and defined outlines, jaunty colors to catch the eye, exaggerated and nearly grotesque features for her characters–a plethora of stimulants sprawl neatly throughout her canvases. One might say that her works reflect the childhood capsule of two generations– Millennials and Gen Zs. On the other hand, the artist pays keen attention to the spiritual status of a screen-drenched population.