This is one deep painter

After a deep depression, Joey Velasco began to create paintings that merged both his spiritual realizations with the “realities” of life, specifically the realities of poor children in his area.

Upon doing so he created “Hapag ng Pag-asa” or “Table of Hope”, his own rendition of “The Last Supper.”

He went out and found 12 children in surrounding slum areas and cemeteries and included them in the piece in place of the 12 apostles. After doing so, he found homes for all 12 families of the children. For him, art does not only imitate life, it changes it.

A few more of my favorite paintings of his below…