Admiration is born with our first gaze. It is the delight in one’s beauty precisely because it speaks volumes of harmony. Entering the exhibit Distant Blue Mountains manifests this exact feeling. 

The interesting images portrayed by both artists speak our desire – a scene before our eyes, without life or motion, that exists with beauty without duration. 

Borsoto’s aesthetic communication with its audiences was established through a plethora of memories. Audiences will have managed to purloin those moments, stitch them together with good intentions, and delight in their beauty – from the terrorizing memories that keep us up at night, to the most precious heartbreak we first had.

On the other hand, Tañedo’s works compel one’s patient wilfulness to realize exactly what the works tell us, or more precisely, the emotions they have evoked in us. And in the close scrutiny of the artist’s skillful capacity to tame color and strokes – we see a transparent portrayal of consonance, an enigma that is constantly renewed at every gaze. 

Within the similarity of the artists’ subject matter, there is the insignificance and ephemeral nature of the moments that highlight how Borsoto and Tañedo penetrate to the heart of the mystery – the works of art that lure human attention back to the level of the familiar. Distant Blue Mountains is an exhibition of a sublime form we didn’t know we seek – an experience with the very essence of beauty without reservations or effort.

-Karen Tesalona