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Student artists hailed in art competition

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Petron, the largest oil refining and marketing company in the Philippines, and a pillar of the industry, supports the many facets of the arts by sponsoring, on an annual basis, Everyone’s Vision Petron, a competition for young and budding artists.

With the theme “Tuklas Kapaligiran” (Rediscovering the Best Feature of Our Surroundings), it aims to serve as a venue for filmmakers, musicians, performance artists, art enthusiasts and all Filipinos to converge and be one through their shared love for Philippine art and culture.

The competition’s categories include photography, painting (oil, acrylic and water-based media), T-shirt art and design, video-making, and OPM music.

Photography, in particular, has touched people’s daily lives—be it a simple shared meal or a commemoration of a milestone, each and every moment must be preserved.

‘Sungka at Bernardo Carpio Mountain’ by Ysabel Victoriano 

For Ysabel Victoriano, a junior Multimedia Arts student at De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde and a photography staffer of the Benildean Press Corps, the official campus journalists’ organization of DLS-CSB, the perfect moment was in Rodriguez, Rizal, where she captured “Sungka at Bernardo Carpio Mountain,” one of her four entries for the Photography in Everyone’s Vision Petron National Student Art Competition 2016, which bagged the Grand Prize.

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Victoriano and the other winners of the competition were awarded a P50,000 cash prize, and plaques designed by National Artist Napoleon V. Abueva, at the San Miguel Corporation Head Office in Mandaluyong City.

Her entry was at the site where the legend of Bernardo Carpio, the mythological source of earthquakes and a legendary Philippine counterpart to Hercules, originated. Apart from promoting the place, she said she also wanted to highlight Filipino culture by depicting the fun of playing sungka or mancala, a traditional game played with marbles or stones on a solid wooden block with circular depressions. 

Asked about how she feels about her triumph, Victoriano said, “It is an honor to be recognized by known photographers in the competition. I was also able to meet other talented artists who share the same passion that I have, ultimately making it a fulfilling experience.”

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