This Filipino turns discarded shuttlecocks into art

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This Filipino turns discarded shuttlecocks into art. Dubai-based architect shares to #Pinoy how he battled depression by transforming discarded items into beautiful artworks.  Read the full Gulf News article: https://gulfnews.com/news/uae/pinoy/filipino-in-uae-turns-trash-into-treasure-1.2258293  See more at: http://gulfnews.com/videos

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00:00It was actually an accident that I was able to find these shuttlecocks and I felt like they have chosen me to represent them.

00:08It's kind of weird to think that these things, these small things, it's like they have found their master to represent them.

00:18So I'm happy.

00:19Hi, I'm Dexter Modesto. I'm with GoldChoose hashtag Pinoy.

00:22I started using shuttlecock year 2016.

00:25That was when I was starting to play badminton.

00:28And also that was the time when I was struggling about my life.

00:33I sympathize with this shuttlecock.

00:35It feels weird to think about that.

00:37But I think the shuttlecock, they need also to be recognized.

00:40As for myself, I think I have to find myself.

00:44In myself, I'm always an artist.

00:46Within my blood, I know.

00:47But when I came here in Dubai, I feel like I had to do something.

00:51It's a way of expressing your emotions.

00:53It's a way to escape stress.

00:55It's a way to escape from another world to another world.

00:58I feel like I have escaped the world in a few hours, in a few minutes, or in a day.

01:02Days of endless artworks, endless painting.

01:05I have already created like 40 artworks, 40 pieces.

01:10My most favorite one, they're all my favorites.

01:13But you would say one of my favorites is the one that I gave to Ms. Pia works.

01:17It's a heart-shaped artwork.

01:21The challenging part of preparing these kind of artworks is actually the cutting part.

01:28You have to cut the shuttlecock.

01:30Each part, you have to separate the feathers.

01:34From feathers to this, what I call, skeleton.

01:36I have to separate each so that if I'm going to paste it, it will be continuously.

01:41The designs are actually, I'm proud.

01:43I would say they are all original.

01:45They are all in my head.

01:46It depends on my feelings.

01:48It depends if I'm sad, if I'm happy.

01:50On the emotions, I feel like I'm a very accomplished person as an artist.

01:54Because I was able to give justice to these shuttlecocks.

01:58I was there to pick them up again, to give them life,

02:01and to be able to inform people or inspire people that,

02:05hey, there's always something that you can make out of some rubbish materials like shuttlecock.

02:11I'm like this stuff.

02:12I feel like sometimes I'm rubbish.

02:14I feel like I don't know my importance.

02:16I don't know my purpose.

02:17Now that I have done with them, I realize I'm trying to inspire people now.

02:21So that is, I think, my purpose, to inspire people.

02:23No one has ever thought that these shuttlecocks can be turned into these magnificent artworks.

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