Most of these award-winning artists situates our common everyday experiences by reflecting our current predicament. They have fostered new directions in Philippine painting that they have passionately espoused when they were young and now are more confident in their brushstrokes and relevant in their form and content. More than nostalgia, they speak of the insistence of a more involved form of representation that adheres to art as an agent of social change; that to paint, sculpt and create art as a form of meditative responsibility to the given milieu. They reconfigure their creativity based on their own terms—issues and longings”

–Jay Bautista