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Portrait of Remedios Lopez Cuenco by Cecilia Brainard

August 7, 2020 by admin Leave a Comment

 

Por­trait by Cecil­ia Brainard — Reme­dios Lopez Cuenco

I made this por­trait using the pho­to of my great-grand­moth­er Reme­dios Lopez Cuen­co as ref­er­ence.  Reme­dios was the moth­er of my grand­fa­ther (Mar­i­ano Jesus Cuen­co, who was the father of my moth­er Con­cep­cion Cuen­co Manguerra.

Reme­dios was a force and not­ed in Philip­pine his­to­ry as the first woman pub­lish­er. She had inspired me to write my third nov­el, The News­pa­per Wid­ow.  Infor­ma­tion here:

https://cbrainard.blogspot.com/2017/12/from-cebu-to-ubec-inspiration-for.html

Read also:

Por­trait of Filom­e­na Alesna Cuen­co by Cecil­ia Brainard
Remem­brance of Things Awry, the Fam­i­lies of Old Cebu
How My Great Grand­moth­er Reme­dios Lopez Cuen­co Died
Excerpt from Arch­bish­op Jose Maria Cuen­co’s Autobiography
Four Gen­er­a­tions of Fil­ip­ina Women — from Jua­na Lopez to Cecil­ia Manguer­ra Brainard
Roots — Pic­tures of my Moth­er and More
More re Jua­na Lopez and Family

Tags: Cuen­co, Cebu, Philip­pines, pol­i­tics, soci­ety, Jua­na Lopez, Reme­dios Lopez, Mar­i­ano Jesus Cuenco

Filed Under: Nonfiction, Uncategorized Tagged With: Cuenco family, Filipino Women portraits

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I am a daugh­ter of the Philip­pines and an adopt­ed daugh­ter of Amer­i­ca. I have also trav­eled to many places so I am also a daugh­ter of the Earth. My expe­ri­ences have found their way into my sto­ries, which try to depict char­ac­ters caught in impor­tant moments in their lives, sit­u­a­tions that force them to act, make deci­sions, change. I try to see the world from my own point of view, not the dom­i­nant West­ern one, thus my inter­est in his­to­ry, cul­ture, and set­ting. But my char­ac­ters car­ry my sto­ries; they are the most impor­tant in my sto­ry-telling. I have to dive deep into them to under­stand their human­i­ty – their good­ness as well as their bad­ness, their beau­ty as well as their ugli­ness. Just like us. Just like each of us. I need to know where they came from, where they are now, so I under­stand where they are going. Just like us.

Please read my full biog­ra­phy here

 

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