HIRAYA GALLERY’s new exhibition entitled “Mystic Ranges” puts on view the fragments of lifetime memories and the harrowed fields of emotions felled from a woman on the throes of discontent and boredom.  But featured artist Jinky Lorenzo-Reynoso camouflages her central theme of growing alienation in dulcet colors and boundless haze that is disarming.

Her 16 canvasses, which vary in sizes, convey much restlessness of the spirit. From the stark and bright colors that bathe her landscapes with lunar and solar lights in  “To Be Alive,” “When Light Enchants Me,” and “Dance of the Flamingos” to the virulent splash of white lights in “Sixteen Candles” and the turbo-charged  coil of clouds “When Prayers Are Answered”, Jinky raises up a storm of rage and rapture alternately. Then quietly she dips into a mute amazement at her solitude in “I Float, I Fall, I Learn to Fly,” and followed by a periscopic examination of a hovering sense of abandonment in the triptych “Pride”, “Prayer,” and “Perfect.”  She dilly-dallies in her self attributes in “As the Light Sings,” “Wings of Avalon” and “Walk of a Poet”. When her frenzy loses hold on her, she settles down on “I Dream of This” and “Soliloquy in Tiwi.”

Like a nubile doe or hare, Jinky hops up and down on the mountains, rocky slopes, lakeshores, or takes flight like a bird to the top of the world. Always on gigantic leaps over crevices, her works send the viewer in an unfurling shot to the view decks in some floors of the ocean, in the mirage of the new suns in the universe, or in the enchanted world of the fairies. The rides on Jinky’s canvasses junk both the senses of time and bounds.

Her 17th canvass entitled “I Will Follow” is the revelation in the exhibited works. Done in black and white acrylic medium, Jinky repossesses all the images in her other works---mountains, sky, water, and glimmer of light---and imprint them as definitive symbols of her rebellion.  The mountain slopes extend out of the frame, the water torrent flows down to nowhere, the light manages to glows only on the fringes, and the dark grey skies just hovers
downward from their endless source.  Among the might of the elements of Nature, the dots of two human figures are the only hosts of the human will.

Jinky molds into the tiny sizes of her human figures her hidden and tentative struggle to break away from the strangle holds in her life.  What could they be?..she does not tell. Instead, she opted to do majestic sights sheltered by immovable hazes, dust and water vapor. Often the natural curtains stick too much that she opted to cross them out white-ly and to pass them off as candle lights.  The results are visuals that pass on meditations from Zen, Confucius and positive thinking.

Jinky’s art rose from her yearning to become a poetess.  She has academic qualifications as a psychiatrist and clinical psychologist which she earned from the De La Salle University. Her marriage to Moi Reynoso has produced three kids and her participation in two previous art exhibitions.