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Philippine artist paints images of volcanic devastation using ash

Published 01/24/2020, 06:28 PM
Updated 01/24/2020, 06:32 PM
Philippine artist paints images of volcanic devastation using ash

By Joseph Campbell and Oscar Abunyawan
TANAUAN, Jan 24 (Reuters) - Ash from a rumbling Philippine
volcano has inspired an artist and instructor to paint
watercolours using the grey powder that had covered the plants
in her backyard.
Janina Sanico, who lives in a town near the Taal volcano,
collected the ash, mixed it with water and binder, and started
painting images, some of them depicting the devastation caused
by the small but dangerous volcano.
"So that was the pain that I felt. So when I saw the
animals, that's where I got my inspiration for my paintings",
said the 24-year old Sanico.
More than 140,000 people have been evacuated after Taal, one
of the Philippines' most active volcanoes, erupted more than a
week ago, blanketing homes, schools and farms with ash.
Sanico, a promoter of natural pigment water colors, said she
has been selling her paintings and donating the profits to help
thousands of people who had been displaced.
"Since this ash came from the earth, I experimented and I
studied. Then when I posted my artwork on social media, I found
that it was widely received by people," said Sanico.
Sanico has used different mediums such as coffee for
painting, but ash, she said surprisingly worked well enough as
long as it had enough water.
Volcanologists have kept the danger level of Taal at 4 out
of a possible 5, meaning that a “hazardous explosive eruption is
possible within hours to days”.
Just 311 meters (1,020 feet) high, Taal is one of the
world's smallest active volcanoes. It killed more than 1,300
people in an eruption in 1911.

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