COMPLICATED ADVANTAGE
(of a writer, work, and myself)
How to become personal without being too personal? How to become transparent without being too honest? Or how do I become real without stating the obvious?
Creating my unfair advantage, based on our class activity, was a bit of an easy and difficult experience because I had to ask myself if it is really unfair and advantageous at the same time. When we say “unfair advantage” it is something that a person is proud to share about him, could be a talent, skill, or something that he or she is really good at. And in my case – I don’t really advertise this all the time – it’s writing and crafting stories, plays, screenplays, and articles.
Given that I know my unfair advantage, the next conflict was the point of how to explain it through visuals. Being a writer, perhaps my power is words, my strength is statement, and my shield is narrative, but putting it into an artform through layout and graphic designing, it just made me love more my “said aptitude” in writing.
During this time, I really found the task complicated because I didn’t know where to begin. I found myself in complete complication. Not to mention my unfair advantage is also complicated – being a writer is not an easy job as we have to connect all dots with all the details and between the lines. I am complicated as well, for I cannot rest until I have imputed every detail in place but in hindsight, making my audience also in a complicated position of viewing my work.
Hence, the answer is COMPLICATED.
If I am a deeply complicated person, thus my unfair advantage is also complicated, so this is what I want to put in this visual work. Full of paper works, pegs and inspiration pieces, small details and characterizations that were in a web kind of organization. I don’t even know if there is order at all, I just know that I am creating the reflection of myself. But even if I have placed myself in the character of a complex personality, I always make sure that all the pieces that are running through my head are all connected by one goal, one expectation, and one outcome.
Here lies some of the writings that I've done:
The Uncanny
Official Entry to the 2023 The Manila Film Festival
The Disturbing
The Manila Film Festival - Frontrunner
The Song of the Fated Gray House - Musical
Theatre Play for COM3A - Letran Manila
Credits:
Ranzelle Mariefaye Bayani, Mari Francesca Maniquis
Ramon Kyle Abay-abay
