Biography
My work consists on the use of contemporary material as a tool for painting, drawing, sculpting, layout design, digital design, photography and video installations to create historical influences with a new-age hybrid sensibility.
I hold a BFA at Ontario College of Art and Design University in 2009. I then took one year of residency in Paris, France and one year at Toronto School of Art in 2011. Then completed my MVS Masters of Visual Studies at University of Toronto in 2013.
In his Major Visual Art Thesis Practice Julius cuts paper and magazines to create new Hybrid images that reflect his own struggles, religious beliefs growing up as a gay young Filipino immigrating to Canada. At the same time finding his own identity in a queer community that upholds homonormativity, the typical gay white male as perfection of queer identity. He explores the fragile materials of personal documentations, along with the gay magazines and appropriated digital queer googled images. The digital exchange of images for his collage consists of transforming the images into heavenly altars, shrines of homoerotic canons, queer domesticity and happy endings while commenting on postcolonial and personal issues on struggles with his own identity. He creates a space of his own crafted domestic shrines of queer identity that begs the questions: What is sacred? What is worshiped or held up as perfect? What is masculine? Who decides? Who has the power? What is marriage? and what is domesticity?
"My theme usually reveals the sensuality of the male sex, the ideology of masculinity, braking it down to the ultra androgynist and rearranging the semiotics of what it represents and how signs and thier meanings are reconstructed. Challenging the very idea of Homonormativity, racial issues witin the queer communities, cultural ideology and meanings behind the male representation."
"I want to consume all the images, memories, and digest it, to create a new hybrid ."
