PAINTERS OF TERRAINS OF FEELING

To step into the worlds of Wonhee "Whee" Delgado and Mark Andy Garcia is to enter terrains where emotion is not merely depicted but dwelled in — where landscapes become vessels of memory, and surfaces pulse with the quiet storm of lived experience.

- CARLOMAR ARCANGEL DAOANA

For both painters, the canvas is less a site of representation than of revelation: a place where feeling takes form, where the invisible weight of interior life — its reckonings, ruptures, and rare stillnesses — is rendered with fidelity.

In "Silent Scream," which opened last Sunday, May 4 at Ilustrado I of Gallery 7, Pinto Art Museum and Arboretum, the Manila- and Seoul-based artist Whee strips away the ornamental, reaching instead for the visceral: rough textures like wounds weathered by time, colors that bruise and bloom, gestures that break apart the surface to reveal what trembles underneath. In this body of work, painting becomes not an image but an event — a moment of quiet rupture, a scream that doesn't need sound to be heard.