heART Exhibit of Joey Velasco

I have never known the painter, never even seen him in personal. But the beauty of his heart is surely reflected in his paintings. I can feel that every stroke he made, he made it out from the overflowing love that he has in his heart - the love that only the Author of Love has given.

To some, the paintings were too religious and sound to be a bit odd. But to me, it was a good eye-opener to a lot of dead living individuals we encounter everyday - individuals who opted to be blind, to be numb. Wake up! And see what’s happening! Have we forgotten how this One man sacrificed His life for us? Wake up.

As I looked at the paintings of Joey Velasco, pain struck me. It was for me one of the most beautiful paintings I’ve ever seen. Not only that it is magnificently done, but truly because the subject in the painting is Jesus. I felt the warmth of every stroke that Joey made.

I’m not into painting and I don’t exactly know how to judge such a painting; whether Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, Vincent Van Gogh’s Starry Night, or Michaelangelo’s The Creation of Adam, is better than Joey Velasco’s Kambas Ng Lipunan. But I know for sure that the works of Joey are the exact representations of the world we are living today. And that Jesus the ultimate source of Love is there for us.

How many times do we have to nail Him on the cross?

How many times do we have to fall before we finally come to Him?

How many of us have remembered the act that He has done?

How many of us have prayed for our country?

How many of us have done their part in fighting against brokenness?

How many of us have received Jesus in our lives? Have you?

Kambas Ng Lipunan (Last Supper, Jesus and the Twelve kids)