Veroni *Salvador* Sablan
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i am a local artist born and raised on Guåhan.
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i was raised by a very creative, strong-hearted, hardworking CHamoru woman...
(Familian Tanåguan - Cruz Pereda).
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And from a soft-spoken, slow-to-anger, funny Filipino Dad (ilo ilo city, who passed away in 2015).
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My High School sweetheart, Jay Sablan, and i have been married for 21 years.
After 17 years of living off-island, we knew in our hearts that we needed to move back home to raise our four amazing children.
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When I paint / my story...
note to self:
i am simply trying to share my appreciation.
if we were put on this earth to Love, my Art is the attempt to Love as much as I can…while I can.
~Fangguaiya todu i siña mientras sisiña~
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from Love ~ ginen guinaiya
i love painting but i really love the process of creating the most.
i am always making mistakes, learning, trying, failing (repeat)
i just feel most like myself, when i’m working with my hands.
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Details of the details
The black lines in my paintings were meant to amplify the raw beauty of watercolors,
while also representing my deep appreciation and love for the details in the simple things.
True Beauty:
the scales on a lemmai fruit, the lines in a delicate flower petal, the banana tree leaves colors changing from green to yellow to brown….the details; this inspires me. Guåhan, she and our people inspire me.
*The overlooked. The imperfect. The “broken”;
So much beauty there*
I’ve learned in my life that lots of love and beauty come from and to those who have been “broken”.
I hope my art represents this.
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#goals: give. More Love ~ Mås guinaiya
With your support, i am able to keep creating. I am able to continue to do what I love and share it.
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SYM for your support
“People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.* "
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some unfaithful friends and some genuine enemies. Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and sincere people may deceive you. Be honest and sincere anyway.
What you spend years creating, others could destroy overnight. Create anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, some may be jealous. Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, will often be forgotten. Do good anyway.
Give the best you have, and it will never be enough. Give your best anyway.
In the final analysis, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway.
~Mother Teresa”
I love you. Thank you
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