00:00With the help of the Museum Foundation of the Philippines and Articulate PH,
00:05a historic project was revived.
00:08And this is Lost Conversations.
00:11To find out more details about it, let's watch this.
00:17With the help of the Museum Foundation of the Philippines and Articulate PH,
00:22an initiative called Lost Conversations was launched.
00:28This is a series of interviews that were conducted 40 to 50 years ago
00:33by art historian, art critic, and author Sid Reyes
00:38in the Masters and National Artists for Visual Arts of the Philippines.
00:42These interviews were originally recorded using cassettes.
00:47And to be presented, they converted it into digital recordings.
00:52I didn't expect that there would be so many of them.
00:55And I was very lucky because I was able to give them to these artists
01:00so that they can be honored.
01:02Now, all of them are no longer with us.
01:04But their voices, their sounds, their thoughts
01:09will remain with us for the rest of our lives.
01:12The digitized recordings of the famous Filipino visual artists
01:17that Mauro Malang, Anitta Magsaysayjo,
01:20Dena Sagil, as well as the well-known pioneer of Philippine modern art,
01:25Victorio Edades, and national artists like H.R. Ocampo,
01:30Jose Hoya, and the father of modern Philippine sculpture,
01:34Napoleon Abuela,
01:36can be heard and watched on the Articulate PH online video platform account.
01:41It is very important now to continue recording and documenting our history
01:48because in the present, the past and the future are happening.
01:54It is important to preserve the voices of the great artists in the visual arts
01:59that even after hundreds of years,
02:02their sounds and thoughts are still here and alive
02:07for the future and for the next generations of artists in the country.
