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Last Saturday we went to Art Fair Philippines 2013. We should’ve gone the day it opened and broken up the viewing over four days. Instead we tried to take in everything in a couple of hours and succeeded in making ourselves woozy. There was so much to stare at that after the first hour our systems refused to process any more information.

Fantastic job, organizers! We keep hearing about the boom in Philippine art—here’s visual confirmation.

The venue was the parking area on the sixth floor of Link, that building across from Landmark. L.V. Locsin and Partners transformed the space into a series of galleries plus a cafe where we tried to empty our heads before looking at the other exhibits.

Some of the pieces we admired and/or coveted, in the order in which we viewed them:

This painting by Elaine Navas, after Polidori.

A group of giant bulul by Ronald Ventura.

Dead birds by Geraldine Javier.

One of several wooden cabinets by Christina Quisumbing-Ramilo.

Copper wire construction by Alab Pagarigan.

Now O’Clock by Carlo Aranton—a moving clock that doesn’t tell time.

Fake designer bags in scrap metal.

The Fall of Kolokoy by Alfredo Esquillo.

An infinity tunnel by Mark Justiniani.

And an amazing collection of moving sculptures by Gabby Barredo.

Note improvement in picture quality—we took these with a Sony Xperia acro S.