Pia Cabanela Acrylic On Canvas Size: 40"/30" Artist Bio: Pia Cabanela (PiaCabs) is a Los Angeles-based artist who works with acrylic medium to illustrate her thoughts onto a canvas. She was formerly a speechwriter to a former national defense secretary in the Philippines, where she was born and raised. Her frequent mode of transportation for the first five professional years were Hueys in the company of mainly military men. She also was a TV documentary writer in one of the country's biggest networks, GMA-7. Winning Silver award as the writer/producer of the documentary Backdoor, at the 2005 US Film and TV in New York, about the plight of Filipinos who choose to cross the South China Sea, illegally, in search for a better life.She studied advertising at Assumption College in Makati and post-grad studies in film and television at the International Academy of Film and TV (IAFT). She has shown her work throughout Los Angeles such as at the RAW 10th Art Show: Reflect, and the Araw Ng Mga Patay (Day of the Dead) a Fil-Am exhibition at Avenue 50 Studio in Highland Park, California, wherein she showcased a political piece. She intricately weaves her experiences as a writer back home with her current cocoon as an artist in LA to cohesively represent both lands. Artist Statement: My acrylic works veer towards depicting the gamut of human emotions. Painting things I cannot see in the real world, I paint metaphors in a heavily layered artwork conveying somehow the multiple surfaces of what I fee

Great Condition Please see picture for a better condition report