Synopsis
"Inscapes, The Art of Agnes Arellano" is a richly illustrated art book written by Alice Guillermo, author, teacher and CCP Centennial Honoree for Art Criticism in 1999.

Guillermo's essay incorporates passages from sculptor Arellano's statements and musings, with pages from her notebooks showing research methods. The 180-page book is profuse with large-format color photographs of the sculptures in plaster and cold-cast marble from the archives of Pinaglabanan Galleries.

It provides a rare glimpse of the totality of Arellano's inscapes - narrative groupings of live-cast and lifesize sculptures - a great number of which were burned in a fire that destroyed Pinaglabanan Galleries' vast collection of cutting-edge contemporary Philippine art culled from its five seasons of exhibitions from 1984 to 1989.

"The sacred and the mythical, the physical and the erotic, the magical and the mundane, the religious and the profane, and music and song all permeate the art of Filipina artist Agnes Arellano. Drawing from rich personal experiences and an extraordinary range of influences, she makes some of the most dramatic art in Asia." (A.Guillermo)

A novel feature is a companion CD of Arellano's sound sculptures or "music composed through sculpture". The book was designed by Datu Arellano and published by Onion & Chives.