Petron student art contest hails student-artists

PETRON, the largest oil refining and marketing company in the Philippines, and a pillar of the industry, supports the many facets of the arts by sponsoring, on an annual basis, Everyone’s Vision Petron, a competition for young and budding artists.

With the theme “Tuklas Kapaligiran” (Rediscovering the Best Feature of Our Surroundings), it aims to serve as a venue for filmmakers, musicians, performance artists, art enthusiasts, and all Filipinos to converge and be one through their shared love for Philippine art and culture.

The competition’s categories include photography, painting (oil, acrylic, and water-based media), T-shirt art and design, video-making, and OPM music.

Photography, in particular, has touched people’s daily lives — be it a simple shared meal, or a commemoration of a milestone, each and every moment must be preserved.

For Ysabel Victoriano, a junior Multimedia Arts student of De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde and a photography staffer of the Benildean

Press Corps, the official campus journalists’ organization of De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde, the perfect moment was at the municipality of Rodriguez, in the province of Rizal, where she captured Sungka at Bernardo Carpio Mountain, one of her four entries for the Photography in Everyone’s Vision Petron National Student Art Competition 2016, which bagged its Grand Prize.

Ms. Victoriano and the other winners of the competition were awarded a P50,000 cash prize, and plaques designed by National Artist Napoleon V. Abueva, at the San Miguel Corp. head office in Mandaluyong City.

Her entry was at the site where the legend of Bernardo Carpio, the mythological source of earthquakes and a legendary Philippine counterpart to Hercules, originated.

Apart from promoting the place, she said she also wanted to highlight Filipino culture by depicting the fun of playing

sungka or mancala, a traditional game played with marbles or stones on a solid wooden block with circular depressions.

Asked about how she feels about her triumph, Ms. Victoriano said: “It is an honor to be recognized by known photographers in the competition. I was also able to meet other talented artists who share the same passion that I have, ultimately making it a fulfilling experience.”