Famously known as the country's premier "wrap artiste", Ditta Sandico launches an art exhibition that showcases her transformative journey to empowerment through indigenous fabrics.
Fashion and painting are two forms of visual art that share many similarities. Perhaps the only big difference is the material with which each form uses to express its creator's vision. For Sandico, whose clothes made of banaca catapulted her to local and international fame, arts and craftsmanship run through her veins. Whether it is fabric or brush on her hand, her creative vision is strong enough to be realised in any medium she likes.
This year, Sandico presents a series of art pieces with mixed material that retell her deeply personal story of recovery, rediscovery, and rebuilding.
In an effort to express the divine power of femininity interwoven throughout her personal journey as a woman in a formerly male-dominated industry, Sandico presents "METTA • MORPHE". It is a unique exhibition of paintings joyfully expressing a woman who is "celebrating a second chance at life, blossoming out of a cocoon, and being wholly and unapologetically herself." In the paintings, we see women dressed in gracefully crafted indigenous fabric, woven by women of the Mangyan tribe, and carefully draped by the multi-awarded designer's expert hand.
