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Things fall apart, the center cannot hold, there is a reign, nay, a riot of images.

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 Artist Olan Ventura is talking to a one-eyed flower vendor who is furiously drawing and drawing.

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Scene one. Think of it as a lost episode of Lost: Artist Olan Ventura drops his cellular phone, something cracks and then something unfathomable happens. Like, say, all his photos become inverted and turn into their polar negatives, transforming skin into blue and eyes into ghostly whites.

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If it happened otherwise, it would be like a lost episode of Lost.

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Olan Ventura goes through the other side of the spectrum in “Negative Light,” which opens on Nov. 26, 6 p.m., at West Gallery, Mary Santos Arcade, 48 West. Ave., Quezon City.

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OLAN VENTURA
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 Artist Olan Ventura is talking to a one-eyed flower vendor who is furiously drawing and drawing.

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Scene one. Think of it as a lost episode of Lost: Artist Olan Ventura drops his cellular phone, something cracks and then something unfathomable happens. Like, say, all his photos become inverted and turn into their polar negatives, transforming skin into blue and eyes into ghostly whites.

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If it happened otherwise, it would be like a lost episode of Lost.

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Olan Ventura goes through the other side of the spectrum in “Negative Light,” which opens on Nov. 26, 6 p.m., at West Gallery, Mary Santos Arcade, 48 West. Ave., Quezon City.

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