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(b. 1989, Hungduan, Ifugao, the Philippines)
Dehon Taguyungon says that his sculptures and relief works are dreamlike and autobiographical. He comes from an Ifugao community known for its woodcarvers where at 16, he took up the chisel and mallet and studied the craft from his neighbors, carving figures sold as souvenirs. In 2011, he took up Fine Arts at the University of the Philippines-Baguio.
In the making of an object, he often begins an idea by studying the natural shape of a piece of found wood before incorporating a playful gesture. His imagery is as much a part of his personal history as it is of his community, interpreting creation stories, lores from his elders, and local mythology. But much of it is endeared with humor such as in his figure of a sleeping bulol (traditional human-like figures originally made to purge illness and for protection from ills) carved with a torso resembling a Ginebra gin bottle.
Taguyungon lives and works in Baguio City, the Philippines.
