Sad Note

Dear friends,

It is a bit awkward to share this personal and tragic event that has occurred to me this morning. But I think it is important for me to write.

My beloved father has passed Away this morning in Bangkok, Thailand due to heart condition, among others. My dad was a heavy smoker all his life, so that might contribute to his unsuspected death. He was 65.

And this is the first time in my life I felt numb, and my thought was to take photographs of him but I stopped short of doing that. I don't know how I would feel to see the negatives and what will that affect me as an artist.

Life is complicated, or perhaps not!!!  As an artist and a photographer, I take pictures and I am an opportunist. Many times one's tragic is the moment us photographers seek to capture and make art out of it. Now it was my turn, but I cannot force myself to immortalize my father with my camera.

It is a good reflection and perhaps a great lesson that sometimes it is better to capture it with mind and remember it in your memory.

When I think of my father, I think of a sea. The sea that has waves coming in and out. I am a boat that floats in it. Through the storms of life, and through the serenity of it, he was, is, and will be with me.

I will miss you father..

Thank you for making me me. I am proud to be your son. I love you, and I am sorry I have never said it to you!!!.

I will continue to sail along in the sea.. Until I see you again!!