A STREET VENDOR. Assemblage, 16 × 9 inches. Glenn Martinez, 2025.
An intimate assemblage desk sculpture that brings together organic and industrial elements to portray a fleeting yet familiar scene. An ambulant vendor moving through the neighborhood, goods balanced overhead, body in motion, day unfolding.
It speaks quietly of endurance, of routine shaped by necessity, and of the grace found in labor often overlooked. A small but grounded tribute to resilience in everyday urban life.
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GALLEON TRADE. Assemblage, 20 x 12 inches. Glenn Martinez, 2023.
Wood carvings, shards from Oriental ceramics, metal and leather on a boat.
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OUT OF TOWN TRIP. Assemblage, 11 x 15 inches. Glenn Martinez, 2020
In Out of Town Trip, I transformed a mahjong tile box into a container of memory and movement. The left panel, with its lock and measuring fragments, evokes the order and anticipation of departure. The right panel opens into a world of encounters: an antique photograph, coral, and driftwood conjure landscapes both familiar and strange.
This work reflects my ongoing exploration of assemblage as a poetic practice, where ordinary fragments become vessels of history, travel, and transformation. Here, the journey itself is the destination.
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DIWATA SA SISIDLANG GASUKLAY. Assemblage, 25 x 18 inchesGlenn Martinez, 2026
In Philippine cosmology, the diwata is a fairy that inhabits forests, waters, and crossings where the visible and unseen meet. This work draws from that understanding, imagining the diwata as a presence that dwells within form itself.
The crescent functions as sisidlan, a vessel. Its curved body evokes cycles of waxing and waning, a state of incompletion that reflects the idea of becoming. Rather than a fixed identity, the crescent suggests transition, a space where something gathers, holds, and transforms. In this sense, being is understood as continuously unfolding.
In contemporary life, where everything is in constant motion and identity is often fragmented or shifting, the idea of a vessel becomes more urgent. We carry multiple selves across different spaces, physical and digital, visible and unseen. Like the crescent, we exist in phases, never fully complete, always in the process of forming.
