ABOUT MIKES
Step into the mind behind the myth. In this space, discover the heart of MIKES’s art philosophy, where symbolism speaks, emotion guides, and storytelling takes form through color and line. Here, she shares her insights, perspectives, and the quiet intentions woven into her work. It is a reflection of how she sees the world: layered, luminous, and always reaching toward something just beyond the visible.
Visual Artist and Designer
MIKES is a Visual Artist and Designer based in Manila, Philippines. Weaving myth, memory, and meaning into every canvas and design. Her work is a quiet ritual, each piece a tapestry of iconographies, allegories and symbolisms that speaks where words fall short. Inspired by folk art, hermetic mysticism, and alchemical imagery, she crafts luminous worlds where the ancient and the divine converge. With vibrant colors and layered form, MIKES transforms fleeting moments into timeless symbols, inviting viewers to step into a realm where the invisible is made visible and the everyday re-enchanted.
PHILOSOPHY OF MIKES’ ART
MIKES is a conjurer of visions, a visual poet whose canvas serves as both altar and mirror. Her work is a vivid tapestry woven from the threads of allegory, iconography, and ancient symbolism. Each stroke is a whisper, each image a spell, a language of symbols that speak where words do not comprehend, born from the tender tension between the seen and the unseen, the personal and the collective.
Her creations are not simply paintings but oracles of lived experience. Through vibrant palettes and deliberate forms, she distills fleeting moments, internal reckonings, and quiet contemplations into luminous, layered compositions. In her world, colors are more than hues, they are emotive currents, carriers of memory and intuition, saturated with the pulse of her inner and outer landscapes.
MIKES draws from the deep wells of folk art, the mysticism of hermetic teachings, and the cryptic beauty of alchemical allegories. Her imagery dances on the edge of the arcane and the accessible, an alchemy of lowbrow irreverence and illustrative clarity, yielding artworks that are at once ancient in spirit and modern in voice. Each piece is a relic of her psychic dialogue with the cosmos, a translation of sensitivity, symbolism, and soul.
She is an artist who listens with her eyes and paints with her spirit. Through her work, MIKES invites the viewer into a realm where myth bleeds into reality, where the mundane is sanctified, and where every symbol hums with meaning. In this sacred practice, she does not merely render the world, she makes enchantments out of it.