Para Kay Gemma: Nilay at Pag-Asa (For Gemma: Meditation and Hope)
Lala de Leon, 2021
Video (Candle and soap)
Lala de Leon created a care package with the products: the Nilay (Meditation) candle and Pag-Asa (Hope) soap. Both objects are made from rich and gentle ingredients such as soy wax and extra virgin olive oil blended with essential oils that calm the mind and spirit: patchouli, frankincense and orange. An illustration of a woman in a quarter lotus pose on the amber-colored candle bottle highlights yoga as a personal self-care ritual. The stone-shaped soap is a nod to one of Gemma’s works, a glass blown pebble. The activated charcoal and gold mica are colors that are associated with 2021’s colors of the year. The video presents the process and act of preparing a package meant to bring comfort to the receiver, her collaborator Gemma Truman.
Credits:
Director of Photography and Editor for video – Race Cuneta
Art on the Nilay bottle – Denise Tolentino
Assistant – Gemmalyn
Lala De Leon creates products for bath and home through Simoy ng Haraya (Filipino for whiff of imagination), a hobby and passion for fragrance and essential oils that turned into a full-fledged business in 2015. She creates products that take inspiration from memories, local culture, and nature.
Gemma Truman is a contemporary blown glass artist living and working in Manchester. She completed her BA (Hons) in Three Dimensional Design at the Manchester School of Art in 2008. She has since exhibited in high profile galleries in the north east of England, worked with prominent British artists and served as Assistant Curator for the British Glass Biennale, and has a studio in the Manchester Design and Craft Centre. Gemma currently teaches at the Manchester School of Art.
