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About First Pillar

A monumental modern dragon sculpture for the Green Sun Building of Solid House, Inc. in Makati City. It is a dramatic 2,000-scale sculpture that wraps itself around the building’s very first constructed pillar as seen in the hotel lobby and works its way up to the ceiling of the bar and lounge. First Pillar is a tribute to Solid House, Inc. Chairman Emeritus and Dragon - Elena Sen Lim.

VISION

“I wanted to show power and stability as represented by a modern dragon and at the same time, create a sense of mystery and magic by not showing where the dragon’s head is. One is always left wondering where the head is.”

MATERIAL

“I used gold electroplated metal for the scales. The scales represent infinite pockets of possibilities and ideas and with its reflective material, the viewer is made part of the whole poetry when they see their image magnified several times on the scales.”

PROCESS

“This is my biggest sculptural installation yet. The most challenging part is arranging and doing overhead welding of the scales one by one on my metal frame which took me and my team five months to complete because I wanted to achieve a certain fluidity with the direction of the scales.”

About the artist

Visual Artist and Sculptor

Jinggoy Buensuceso is a Visual Artist and Sculptor based in the Philippines. His work evokes stories and bold statements of oneself, culture, and way of life through the use of clean lines with organic forms – the push and the pull. He is a material expert working primarily with metal, wood and cement.

INFLUENCE

Buensuceso is a Visual Communications graduate from the University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts. His works are heavily influenced by his childhood in the province of Bataan and his international exposure to the art and architecture of New York and Singapore where he was consecutively based during the start of his career as an Artist.

RECOGNITION

Buensuceso is also an emerging figure in furniture design where he has created functional art pieces meant to evolve design into art. He is a three-time Mugna awardee, and a co-founder of Epoch, a movement of six young, international artists who provoke new thinking in Philippine furniture design.

INSPIRATION

“I am inspired by the beauty and deeper form of nature. My studio is set up at home where I am most inspired by the greens around me and with my family and dogs close by. I am inspired by black. Black is creative, it is beautiful. It is the new white – an infinite canvas for possibilities.”