"Of Vert & Miles" — Endurance as Creative Practice
Vert and miles are the language of outdoor athletes: vertical meters climbed and horizontal distances covered. They are units of effort, of time spent in exertion, of a body in honest dialogue with the terrain. For Glend, these numbers are not tallies of his accomplishments; they are the accumulated weight of a life in motion, each digit a measure of the lengths he has chosen to go.

The theme draws from the parallel disciplines of making art and doing outdoor recreation. Both demand repetition without a guarantee of result. Both require recovery as much as resolve. Both are shaped by the sustained choice to return — to the canvas, to the trail, to the practice — even when progress is invisible. The works in this exhibition live in that tension: between stillness and exertion, between
breaking down and pushing through, between the stubborn quiet of the studio and the relentless, breathing world that waits beyond it.

Across the paintings and accompanying merchandise, the theme surfaces through bodies in motion, landscapes encountered and absorbed, the geometry of effort, and the subtle ways nature reorganizes a person. The visual language is Glend's own — figures rendered in transparent washes, neither fully foreground nor background, subject and environment dissolving into each other. Bodies don't move through landscapes here; they become them. Each composition is distinct, yet all are bound by the same insistence: that a person and the world they move through are never truly separate.

Works

LOOKING FOR BERNARDO
ACRYLIC ON CANVAS
36 X 48 INCHES
2026

₱76,000.00

SEA TO SUMMIT
ACRYLIC ON CANVAS
36 X 36 INCHES
2026

₱45,000.00

DNF
ACRYLIC ON CANVAS
24 X 24 INCHES
2026

₱27,000.00

BANWA

ACRYLIC ON CANVAS
12 X 12 INCHES
2026

₱4,500.00

YATU

ACRYLIC ON CANVAS
12 X 12 INCHES
2026

₱4,500.00

MOUNTAIN SPIRIT

ACRYLIC ON CANVAS
12 X 12 INCHES
2026

₱4,500.00

KOM
ACRYLIC ON CANVAS
36 X 36 INCHES
2026

₱47,000.00

LAKPA
ACRYLIC ON CANVAS
36 X 24 INCHES
2026₱44,000.00

BICOL EXPRESS

ACRYLIC ON CANVAS
48 X 36 INCHES
2026₱87,000.00

BRICK SESSION
ACRYLIC ON CANVAS
36 X 36 INCHES
2026₱105,000.00

DFL
ACRYLIC ON CANVAS
24 X 24 INCHES
2026

₱23,000.00

FETCHING WATER IN
PANNA MEENA KA KUND
GICLÉE PRINT ON HAHNEMÜHLE PHOTO RAG
IMAGE: 16 X 16 INCHES
FRAMED: 22.5 X 22.5 INCHES

Framing/Matting Details: Archival matting and UV-protective glass

2023

₱7,500.00

HANUMAN IN JODHPUR

GICLÉE PRINT ON HAHNEMÜHLE PHOTO RAG
IMAGE: 16 X 16 INCHES
FRAMED: 22.5 X 22.5 INCHES

Framing/Matting Details: Archival matting and UV-protective glass

2023
₱7,500.00

SABI MO BANAYAD
ACRYLIC ON CANVAS
36 X 24 INCHES
2026

~~₱32,000.00~~ SOLD

FIRST ULTRA

ACRYLIC ON CANVAS
48 X 36 INCHES
2026₱78,000.00

FREE BANANA
ACRYLIC ON CANVAS
36 X 24 INCHES
2026

₱36,200.00

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