SOLAR POWER

Dancing Solar Flowers
Paper flowers with light-powered mechanism
© Artist Alexandre Dang / www.dang.be

SAM Link: http://www.singart.com/exhibitions/details.php?id=71

NICOLAS & NICOLAS

Nicolas Cage & Nicolas Garcia

FLEA MARKET

Nicolas misheard the tour guide say Flea Market. He excitedly asked, "Everything free there?"

REAR VIEW

"Woo hoo!"

THE SUM OF HEALTH

"sick lolo + medicine = well lolo" 
- Nicolas Garcia -

(Materials Used: paper and colored pencils)

"TRACY"

Nicolas' Nike T90 football. He named it "Tracy".

JOAQUI 2004-2006

"Be grateful for the little things - the ability to chew, taste, swallow - the way your kids enjoy Jollibee chicken or McDonald's french fries.  Be aware of your child's deep breathing when they sleep, and the smell of their hair when they snuggle up to you.   When they ask you for a new Playstation - remember Joaqui, who could not even hold a spoon, let alone a video game controller."

Joaqui Imperial was born 1 year, 11 months ago with a congenital heart disease called Tetralogy of Fallot.  It was a stressful birth for him, and the doctors immediately informed us that he had to have a major heart operation to survive.   He was rushed to the Phil. Heart Center - in the ambulance, his oxygen saturation was hitting the mid-30s (normal is 99).   Aside from his heart defect, he had Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy or to put it simply, brain damage from lack of oxygen.   He underwent a stop-gap procedure that let him live in spite of his heart defects.

He was a fighter, and was eventually discharged from the hospital after more than 3 weeks.  During our stay, I witnessed 6 other children who did not make it - Joaqui was one of the lucky ones.

JUNO'S SHIRT DESIGNS

Juno's Street Light shirt designs for Collezione C2.