Abel Manalo is a San Francisco based Filipino American artist who creates multi-dimensional woven artworks. He expresses his creativity through painting by using mediums such as watercolor, oil, acrylic and mixed media. His inspirations come from portraiture, figurative and representational art. In his creative process, he paints two original pieces that complement each other, cut them into strips and meticulously weave them together into an entirely different work of art. By weaving the two paintings into one artwork, a dimensional texture is created. As he cuts and weaves both paintings together in different patterns, the resulting final image is always unexpected beyond his preconceived concept.