Neil Daza's Peripheries @ Blacksoup Project Artspace

"PERIPHERIES"
Photographs and video works by
Neil Daza
(December 20, 2006 - January 30,2007)
Blacksoup Project Artspace

It is difficult to be present in the present when mind travels to worrying of the future or doubting the past.

Or when humid air dulls the senses as I stand along Ermita's sidewalk, where jaded souls, like those of sexy females, bask on the salty glare of lamppost.

A tipsy one dares to pose teasingly, until she bares herself without ado. Revealing her true nature as transsexual, she walks casually away like a goddess who gives me the privilege to see the truth.

Seeing the little things that mean nothing or trash to most people is paying attention to life as it happens, when we live each moment at a time.

Like feeling a twinge of pity for a stray dog limping along Recto--the same pang one feels for an actress; blind stare after having sex, in a bold movie.

Or the spark of curiosity aroused by the smear of coffee from an upturned cup on the floor of a basement parking lot. What kind of person would leave without caring about
the spill?

Photography creates its own borders and space. It can either show nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, or something more beyond the picture. Photography may show how little our eyes permit us to see.

Or it can show us the peripheries: the fringes of life, the edges of reality, the unimportant yet essential to the consciousness of being in the present and living each moment like no other. These are my peripheries, hidden and seen.

Neil Daza
December 2006

PERIPHERIES
Photographs and video works by
Neil Daza

December 20, 2006- January 30,2007
Blacksoup Project Artspace
Shop 61, Marikina Shoe Expo
General Romulo Avenue, Araneta Center
Cubao, Quezon City
Gallery hours 4-9pm, Tue-Sat
Telefax: 439-8838