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Maganda, kaya mo yan!

Beautiful, you can do anything  Let your passions burn brighter than your fears.@pinaydotcomConscious PinayInternational women’s day 2021 Art by Omehra Sigahne aka BagongPinay #internationalwomensday#womensmonth#WomensWisdom#pinay#filipina#filipinas#filipinaartist

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New Filipino Music

Pakinggan n’yo ang kagandahan ng mga bagong musika galing Pilipinas natin. Listen to the beautiful new music coming from the Philippines. Watch out for these pinays— Aira and Yara… New Filipino Music Playlist by Joel Quizon.

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Baybayin Alive blog

Whenever you get a chance, check out my other blog about the deeper meanings of baybayin writing and other writing symbols around the world. The practice of interpreting writing symbols’ curves and overall meaning is a practice given to nordic runes, hebrew alphabet, sanskrit […]

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11 simple and strange ways to expand your creativity & imagination

How to expand imagination and creativity isn’t even taught at Fine Arts College. After I got my degree, it took me years to figure out things, mostly by accident, that worked for me. To get my creativity to flow and to expand my imagination, I open […]

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be creative. NOW is the time

More than ever, be creative. NOW is the time. the world needs your light. ~ Omehra Sigahne LifeLightLove.com #turnonthelight #flow #creative A post shared by Omehra Sigahne (@mabuhay_lifelightlove) on Apr 14, 2017 at 4:21pm PDT

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13 Indigenous Grandmother’s Council

The Babaylan Mandala has been adapted by the Thirteen Indigenous Grandmother’s Council retreat event. With this new rendering, through symbolic art and soul, our Philippine Lolas and the Babaylan are joined with The International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers. I have given SPECIAL permission […]

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The past nourishes the present and future.

This guy makes me think about Filipinos today who look to ancient Philippine symbolism in baybayin and tattoos for inspiration. Saki Mafundikwa urges African graphic designers to draw on ancient writing symbolism of Africa for fresh inspiration. It’s summed up in his favorite Ghanaian […]

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Baybayin Name Mandalas

Would you like a custom Baybáyin name mandala? Each one is special for each person it is made for. Up until the end of  May, I’ll take your order for one if you make a donation to Pinay.com and mention this code KALULUWA (is visayan for “soul”). […]

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My art on someone else’s body

“My art on someone else’s body.” It’s a strange thing to say. I never thought that the babaylan mandala would become a tatak, so meaningful that others would want it tattooed on their own skin. (In the Philippines tattoo is “tatak.”) I observe. I […]

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The Bagong Pinay Art Exhibit

No, I did not have a BagongPinay art exhibit, even if my pen name is BagongPinay. Rather, to my delight and surprise, there was a two-day art exhibit called “Ang Bagong Pinay” which means “the new Filipina” and was produced by the United Women’s […]