HERE is another one from de Veyra’s playing around with semantics through text within art-making. It started as his attempt at a humorous play upon the “maroon”-tagged red color, wherein colors and darkness found themselves blooming around the “marooned” image (contexts of exile and a longing for a return?). Within images of war and spies and maternity, vis-a-vis image/pattern representations culled from ethnic art, cinema, and contented pop culture. Is that brown image behind the feet actually a large slice of chocolate cake? What is that piece of nutrition doing here? And the abstract door symbols? Escape? Entry? Is what’s here a Douglas MacArthurian legend?