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This is a 16" X 20" acrylic on canvas painting titled "Basketball." It shows four men playing basketball using an improvised basketball board nailed to a tree. This is a typical scene in rural villages in the Philippines. The background shows a nipa hut, a rice field, and trees.

I finished this painting last February 10, 2017.

This painting has been featured in the following FAA group(s):
January 22, 2018 - Life Off the Grid
February 7, 2018 - Asian Artists

Cyril Maza is a self-taught artist and an engineer. He works as an engineer on week days and paints as an artist during weekends. He has a natural passion to build and to create, and is very much fascinated by activities where ingenuity, imagination, and creativity come into play. His childhood hobbies included drawing, playing mandolin, and solving puzzle games. He also liked to play with common household items, such as paper/cardboard boxes, glass/plastic bottles, wooden blocks, and even books. He would lay them all out on the floor forming a pattern that resembles a city, complete with buildings, roads, and parks. He would be so engulfed in his own little “world,” designing and building his own “city,” that you could leave him...