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Maglalako signed and dated 2014 (lower left) collage and acrylic on canvas 24" x 18" (61 cm x 46 cm) With his artworks often revolving around the themes of nature and the environment, influenced by his early experiences in Romblon and Papua New Guinea, Jim Orencio’s Maglalako, which he painted in 2014, portrays one of the daily elements that the artist might have observed while living in a rural environment. The piece depicts a barefoot young man using a shoulder pole or yoke to carry two hanging, woven baskets—the familiar imagery that comes to mind when visualizing a figure of a rural maglalako or vendor. The acrylic painted piece extensively hints at Orencio’s origins of growing up in a rural environment, as the piece not only gives the observers a glimpse into the humble life you would usually experience living in a rural Filipino countryside, serving as a tribute to traditional rural life and labor, but it also showcases Filipinos’ core characteristics of being hardworking in their daily lives. (Mark John Castañeda)