Blogpost #7: Infected Art & Infected by art!

Tikbalang now are included in the field of arts because some of the Flipinos make them as an art. Filipinos makes painting, drawing and featured them in some performance which is they are the main character. Our arts here in the Philippines are considered as a world class because of our skill of creativeness. Being creative is our advantage to represents our country. We say that the Tikbalang can we make as an inspiration because of its popularity in our culture, beliefs and in arts.

According to this article entitled Will the “tikbalang”live on? by Nancy Cudis . One of the common characters in the stories I have read is tikbalang. According to Nancy " And I’m not surprised to find him in the three graphic novels I just read. He is very prominent in the Skyworld series as a warrior-hero. As a matter of fact, he is a prominent character in Filipino mythology, such that anyone in my generation and those before me knows about him. Tikbalang is like a centaur in Greek mythology, only he is able to stand, walk, and act like the next human being, but most of his body (head and feet) is that of an animal, often portrayed as a horse, and a very tall demon horse with limbs disproportionately long."

Tikbalang invaded the world of art by using them as a character on many comic stories. Many have used them as a hero, villain, or a supporting character. And many people enjoy reading about them because of the twists they give on the storyline.  

I read this article entitled  Tikbalang by Emerald Fury. According to Emerald " My version of the Tikbalang was to play on giving it long limbs and adding tribal symbols that are crude representations of the Tagalog alphabet as tribal paint and if it resembles someone, I did use my version of the Jersey Devil to make aspects of the Tikbalang, such as the hoof hands and hair, but in my universal idea, the Jersey Devil is a Tikbalang that has lost touch with its nature source and thus, grew corrupted and violent from being deprived of its home of power. So, this version is essentially a healthy form of the Tikbalang."

She has her own version of Tikbalang where she put it some forms of arts like tribal symbols. We saw how Filipino be creative in simple way we can create a good art work with the use of Tikbalang. So that Tikbalang are very common now to us it can be our art. It inspired us to make become our creativeness wake up.

Now art is part of our lives and we can also combined with anything you want to imagine in your art.We can also apply some creatures to form a beautiful artworks like the Tikbalang. Tikbalang is an exact creature that can we use to put an art because it has the physical appearance of being bad and good.