cast-eye-conte.jpg Painting by Jonathan Francisco Daoang

My work consists of various drawings and prints overviewing my own multicultural community and the American Pacific. A visual progression of my artwork shows process of imagery with multiple series prints, stylistic experimentations and interesting compositions of large multiple media drawings.
Collectively, my images represent ties to my background with iconographic and metaphorical visual experiences yet to be explored by American Pacific cultured inhabitants. The product of what influenced my homeland is the direction in so far.
Being from the unique multi cultured island of Oahu, Hawaii I have experience an understanding of numerous Pacific cultures. I appropriate from cultures mostly because of my target audience’s influences. New Zealand’s Maori icon of the frond known as the koru, Japanese cultured import tuner fans for their ornamental designed kintuna knot, and Hawaii’s stacked tiki totem poles are all examples of these influences. I employ rope, as they are to represent a primitive tool for binding to include using them for metaphorical purposes. Finally, boher goat horns specifically to represent a personal use in my ethnic Philippine food.
The choices of media I use are solely for drawing or print making purposes. Charcoal, Indian ink, carbon pencils, pastels, and sometimes oil pastels are my primary choice of drawing media. Dry point on Plexiglas, copper, and zinc plates, lithography, linoleum cuts, and woodcuts are currently my primary choices over all other printmaking processes. High proficiency, in control and knowledge of physical properties of the tools involved with the media types I prefer, is what I strive for as a standard. Along with this initiative, my work conveys an irregular contextual comprehension about chosen visual content and is present throughout the entire body of work.
Recently, explorations of humanistic flaws have inspired a completely new direction of imagery. Of course, I continue to make and standardize my incredibly accurate visual understanding of subjective content; I can only display what I have experienced on an influential yet intimate level.
As an artist, I continue to move towards prolific proficiency in not only media control but to also have complete knowledge of the imagery I choose to convey. The continuation of my art will always present a visual understanding of all the above-mentioned levels of content, comprehensively and intimately as its foundation.
J. F. DAOANG

• Nationality: UNITED STATES
• Date of birth : 1988
• Artistic domains:
• Groups: Contemporary American Artists