GO NATURAL! A GLOBAL CRISIS CALLS FOR LIFESTYLE CHANGE!
ART + POSITIVE ACTION – 50% CO2 EMISSION X LIFESTYLE CHANGE / TREES PLANTED = ECOLOGICAL FUTURE
Enigmata Vision
Nurturing creative ecological space for cultural and spiritual refreshment that can create happy memories and bring positive change to the self, community and the environment.
Enigmata Mission
Learn by experience, teach by example
Art Education as Community Project
Open your eyes to see your full potential. There are no useless things, only useless minds.
Objectives of Art Education
- Create public space for culture of peace
- facilitate people to people fair travel experience
- Open healing space for creative dialogues with grassroots women
- Play and imagine with the children
- Facilitate multi-cultural interaction between artists, local community, visitors and travelers
- Strengthen volunteerism of the global community
Photo by Ivan Sarenas
An artcamp and resource center, Enigmata documents life as our greatest work of art. In Camiguin a sacred playground was given birth as the TREE of LIFE where more than a hundred year old Acacia tree “MaA” gracefully stands in the center of the treehouse. The volunteer resident artist and creative director, Maria Rosalie “Ros” Zerrudo shares the joy with the children of Camiguin in this magic sound art playground, Peace Library (with assistance from Imagine Peace) as we welcome visitors from all over the world.
“Enzemus” sculpture (facade of Treehouse front shot above) portrays the five elements of nature sprouting from the ground reaching for the sky. A banyan tree has now resided and embraced the sculpture as a living masterpiece.
Photo by Jo Wan Cheol
Nature’s Architect… Built by the benefactor, a doctor of mathematics, mechanical engineer and musician Ben Aicha, the treehouse is now home to a group of vibrant Mindanao artists called the Enigmata Creative Circle, a collective of volunteer artists. Enigmata artists assumes the creative process of extending this personal expression into a bigger community vision. The name Enigmata which means “open your eyes” was born out of friendship.
Photo by Rosalie Zerrudo
The captivating bronze-colored sculpture “Enigman” created by prol ific sculptor Kublai Millan leads the way to the treehouse sculpture garden. Enigman is the expression of the Filipino culture bearer rooted from the roots, carrying the culture of remembrance that represents heritage and traditions.
The bio-glass wall remained to be a popular photography subject as a home-made recycled stained windows which brightens up with daylight from the inside. Bottles donated by Goldie the Swiss chef.
In one stop, Enigmata Treehouse, a cultural bank, is an art camp backpacker’s ecolodge and art gallery. Around it is a sculpture garden featuring some of the gravity defying outdoor sculpture works of Davao-based artist Kublai Millan.
A gallery of okil art carved on wood welcomes the visitors with a visual feast of Camiguin local functional house imbeleshment decorative vernacular architecture found in ancestral houses. This replication is a post product of pre-world war II architectural research with Lawig Diwa experts.
Atop the treehouse ecolodge is the eagle’s nest suites, spiraling to the shell garden suites and descends to the backpacker’s dorm. Next to it is a sound playground converted-pool garden with a green canopy view deck that opens to a swing garden bamboo platform and peace library area we baptized as “Balay Kalipay.”
Photo by Ivan Sarenas
Salima labyrinth walk welcomes the pilgrims to a sacred walk to the core of the “hand.” A sculpture of a dancer and a musician “the union” is like earth and sky, the duality that gives us back our wholeness and oneness. The walk inside the “Salima” or hands as the symbol of creativity, is a celebration of life. We express our thanks in this labyrinth walk as we bring people back to the “center”. It is a living vortex of dreams and visions. A basket of blessings within each one waiting to be unfolded and discovered.
The mouth of the moon garden leads you through concrete sculptures “taong tuko” gecko man and “taong bao” turtle man. The gecko known for its reverence to the earth is likened to a tribal man rooted in his culture. The turtle man is the voice of the sea. We make sculptures as living statements of our visions.
We are the change we want to see happen in the universe.
A mosaic of bottle caps turns out to be the most photographed area. The peace library started with books donated by International School Manila through the efforts of Bec Gilman, Imagine Peace of South Korea, Peace Voyagers through Lei’Ohu Ryder, Enigmata Guests and artists.
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