In October 2025, I visited my homeland Philippines, primarily to introduce food supplements Novo Vita, and at the same time, to make a short interview with the artists. For the second time, I got to meet the couple Richard and Thristle Buxani. The couple I met in Tivoli, Denmark. Richard, being one of the artists representing the Philippines, joined the exhibition at Venice Art Gallery entitled Minari held in Venice, Italy in the spring of 2022.
Richard’s inspiration in creating warrior brass and copper sculptures stemmed from his creative imagination, his childhood, and adolescence to adult life’s interest in the legendary warriors from both movies and animation films. The animation films of Akira Kurosawa in the 80’s and later on Rurouni Kenshin (Samurai X), which was based on the “manga” series, a japanese television series that has gotten their popularity in the Philippine TV in the 90’s.
