Why Space and Care?
Space and Care combines two different perspectives: one from designing spaces, the other from mothering. It covers our interests in art, architecture, healthcare, and family life.
Space and Care is also where you can find artworks that we create from what inspires us. We are self-taught artists using what we have learned from our different backgrounds. Below are our artist statements and short bios.
Richard Lasam
I draw geometric abstract patterns with ink fine liners. As an architect, I enjoy the creative drawing of lines, shapes, and volumes in orderly and symmetrical configurations. Using traditional architectural ink drafting techniques and design language, I apply my architectural mindset to Bristol paper to present the patterns that I envision in my mind. My work is a physical representation of what happens in an architect's mental landscape as one designs and iterates the creative process to achieve a new work.
About us
As a mother, I take each day steeped in the joys (sorrows, toils, and the comedy) of family life, which pose to me the question of how I can give more of what I have. I let this inspire me in my works, whether I am painting a scene in the home or creating a more allusive composition with women and children at the center. Through my works, I invite the viewer to see the value in the “little”—little thoughts, little tasks, little flowers—and realize that even little things hold infinite value when you put love into doing or making them.
Richard Lasam
Architect
Nicole Lasam
Writer
Richard Lasam specializes in healthcare architecture, which he has been practicing for 15 years. Having graduated from the University of the Philippines (Diliman Campus) in 2008, he took his apprenticeship in the firm Luis & Associates, a company that is a specialist in healthcare facility architecture. Since then, he has worked on many healthcare-related buildings in both private and public sectors from clinics to tertiary hospitals as an Architectural Consultant.
Nicole Lasam is a writer with a background in Creative Writing (graduated magna cum laude fom UP Diliman in 2006). She has written and edited for magazines, websites, and social media. In 2012, she won a Catholic Mass Media Award for Best Short Story, which was published in Baby Magazine (Marathon Publishing Co.).