The Mentis Flatuscence

Images of the American eagle as part of the Seal of the Philippine Commonwealth. The US Founding Fathers took to the symbols and trappings of the ancient Roman Republic and made the eagle their standard. Originally based on the Greco-Roman symbol the eagle held the thunderbolts of Zeus. It is also one of Zeus’s disguises most memorable was with the abduction or rape of the youthful and beautiful prince Ganymede. This same eagle became one of the charges in the current coat of arms of the Republic found on the dexter side of the shield.

Columbia which is the martial and feminine symbol of the United States is Athena, the goddess of state, war and wisdom and daughter of Zeus (she sprang from his head after he swallowed her mother Metis with Hephaestus breaking his skull with an axe). She is no longer used as symbol of the United States instead replaced by Uncle Sam at the turn of the 20th century.

HABSBURG: A former convent now St. Francis of Assisi Museum in Siquijor Island. This beautiful Spanish era coral stone structure is obscured by an elementary school. You have to go inside the school to see the building itself. The facade carries the Spanish Habsburg Royal Coat of Arms, they ruled Spain from 15th to 17th centuries. It has the two pillars of Hercules and Rampant Lion supporters.

OLD POSTERS: That time when Pierre and Gilles met the Popes and the Sacred Genealogy Tree. ‘Sacred and profane’ personal work/study circa 2003.

Niels Bohr’s ‘Yin Yang’ Coat of Arms. His Atheism is more affined to Far Eastern Philosophy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niels_Bohr#cite_note-7

Larry Witham (2006). The Measure of God: History’s Greatest Minds Wrestle with Reconciling Science and Religion. HarperCollins. pp. 138-139. ISBN 9780060858339. “”Bohr’s atheism, the counterpiece of Einstein’s monotheism, … was more affined to traditional Far Eastern philosophy,” according to Stent. …The young Bohr thus lived in two worlds, but mostly the cultural Christianity of the Danish middle class. As a young man, he had read Søren Kierkegaard, a fellow Dane and a Christian existentialist from the nineteenth century, with some enthusiasm. But he finally faced a religious crisis, and by the time he went to England to study physics, the idea of God had lost its appeal. The aim of life was happiness, he wrote his fiancée, making it impossible “that a person must beg from and bargain with fancied powers infinitely stronger than himself.” … In his only published paper on the topic of religion, Bohr spoke not of deities and doctrines but of psychological experience.”

PDF COVER: Institutional Memory: Historical Renderings from First to Fifth Republic

For the ether: Muse, Museums, Musings  (Recent Designs)

Museum Brands: Not an official re-branding but an iconic treatment of Lopez Memorial Museum (@Lopez_Muse on Twitter) as advertised in Business World Magazine, July 2, 2012.

I utilized the iconic painting of the 19th Century Master Juan Luna’s Espana y Filipinas. The allegory of Spain and the Philippines is framed inside the shape of the shield from the Coat of Arms of the Philippines at the turn of the 20th Century.

The calligraphic figure Mother Spain is pointing at is the ancient Philippine script called ‘Baybayin’ of the initials ELF, Eugenio Lopez Foundation.

For my 500th, Study Cover to Institutional Memory Project (Philippines)

Recent Museal Renderings Studies 1 to Four

Preview of the unofficial coat-of-arm-ish iconic brand of Lopez Memorial Museum to appear in an ad in a major newspaper.