Catalogue for artist John Frank Sabado’s exhibit Images of the Past, at The Drawing Room

John Frank Sabado’s lifework emanates from his context of belonging to the Mountain Province, guided as an autodidact to the people’s everyday practice of articulating and performing traditions. The narratives of his landscape vacillate within the ongoing system of adapting in time – whether in antagonism to the “modern world’s” intervention to its ecology or a reinforcement of symbology that persists regardless of the phenomenon of change.

Excerpt from Many and One in John Frank Sabado’s Landscapes, Sidd Perez