The Making

Malikhaing Gawain

Malikhain came from the Filipino word that means creative and Gawain means work, so basically, it means creative work.

I came to know malikhaing gawain from my high school class Values Education wherein we were given an assignment that will be submitted not just through a piece of paper but by a creative way and mostly made of indigenous materials. It is called Malikhaing Gawain.

I really had fun doing it since we don’t have an art class in our curriculum. Whenever our teacher gave the assignment, bountiful of ideas popped out of my mind on how to make my next Malikhaing Gawain. Sometimes I used dried leaves, seed of Narra (because we have a Narra tree beside our house), dried flowers, and other weird things I see around our house.

Since I love to make different handicrafts, I shared my little knowledge about these things to my family members and friends and the feeling that I felt when they learnt it was awesome and the knowledge that I shared to them were also shared to their friends. Since then, in my vacant time, I watched various art-making tutorials and sometimes make something out of my used art materials and eventually share this to the people around me.

In one of our subjects this semester, we were tasked to make a blog about anything you love. Malikhaing gawain first popped in my mind, and because of that, this blog was born.

At first, I thought what kind of tutorial should I make- would it be via text or a video? Since I experienced how hard to follow a written tutorial, I decided to make it a video.

It was hard to shoot a tutorial given the fact that I don’t want to make my brother take a video of it and I can’t do it myself because I must use both hands to make the artwork. What I did was quite funny. I gathered two canned corned beef, six thick books and a hanger. The canned corned beef became a post stock three books each on top of it and placed a hanger on top of the books and voila! A ‘duopad’ was born.

My second tutorial requires a huge space that’s why the duopad won’t do because it captures a small amount of area. What I did was that I got thumb tacks, yarn, books and hanger. I tied the three corners of the hanger to the yarn and pinned the latter to the ceiling  of my bed and placed two books on top the hanger. That made my shooting a lot easier without worrying that my hands would bumped on the corned beef.

Now, I’m looking forward not just for the artwork/handicraft should I make, but also on how to shoot it without bothering my brother.