FAQ

What is this website?

This website presents itself as Henry Del Rosario’s online art portfolio. It is also a blog about art, medicine, and missions.

What’s “unautrecoeur” and “住在爱里面”?

French: “un autre coeur,” translates to “one other heart; another heart.” Chinese: “住在爱里面,” translates into “live in the love inside; abide in love.”

How did you design your site?

I coded much of it with Notepad. Graphics manipulated with Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, and Lightroom. I code off of strict XHTML, CSS, and HTML standards. The wordpress theme is based off of pinboard which is provided freely by wordpress.

Which kinds of art media do you use?

I use Derwent graphite pencils, Prismacolor (& verithin) colored pencils, Winsor & Newton oils and watercolors, and a 6×8″ Wacom Graphire.

Which cameras do you use?

My photographs were taken with a Holga 120S (or Holga 120CFN) and processed in a dorm basement. Digital photos were captured with a Canon EOS 60D or an iPhone.

What equipment do you use to record music?

I have a 3/4 size Cordoba Cadete classical guitar. I record using Audacity program and the Samson C01U condenser microphone. I dabble with my recorder from second grade, my sister’s practice violin, my brother’s $5 harmonica, a George Steck baby grand, and my casio electric piano thing. My pop filter’s made of nylon stockings and my microphone stand’s styrofoam.

Your tone is not very accurate.

:P

Where are your parents from?

They’re both from the Philippines. My brother, sister, and I are the first family members born in America! Sometimes I like to think my father’s from Galilee.

What’s your favorite sound?

The sound of a tall glass of water being gently laid down on black marble at night with the lights off.

Are you religious?

No, I’m a follower of Jesus Christ.

Music you like?

My ears enjoy listening to: Jeremy Enigk, Arcade Fire, Sufjan Stevens, Explosions in the Sky, Hillsong United.

Which artists inspire you?

Makoto Fujimura, Gianlorenzo Bernini, Yoshiyuki Sadamoto, Dali, Bryan Lee O’Malley, M.C. Escher, Picasso, Auguste Rodin, Yoshitoshi Abe, Edgar Degas, Rene Magritte, and the unknown greek sculptor of the Nike of Samothrace.

Whose words speak to your heart?

Haruki Murakami, Li Po, Emily Dickinson, Cathy Park Han, Augustine, T.S. Eliot, C.S. Lewis, John Donne, George Herbert, Julian of Norwich, John Milton, Franz Kafka, ee cummings, Algernon Swinburne, William Carlos Williams, Saint Paul, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Albert Camus.

Do you have any favorite quotes?

I know I’m filled to be emptied again. The seed I’ve received I will sow. – HILLSONG UNITED

No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone… The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality. – TS ELIOT

Meanwhile, the older son was in the field. When he came near the house, he heard music and dancing. – LUKE 15: 25

“神就是爱； 住在爱里面的，就是住在神里面，神也住在他里面。” – 約翰一書 4:16