Video production by: Mailyne Briggs
GO NATURAL! A GLOBAL CRISIS CALLS FOR LIFESTYLE CHANGE!
A unique “homestay” experience for travelers, artists and environmentalists. Also get a chance to meet new people with Backpackers’ dormitory for an experience of shared communal living.
We welcome you to our newly transformed wide open space Balay Kalipay Peace Library Cafe with support from Imagine Peace. An open classroom, in-house theater and library cafe.  Find the GANDA Art Galeri right below showcasing the works of local artists.
Balay Kalipay library cafe is born out of the map of hope project with Imagine Peace. This open space in house theater is a quiet retreat made of bamboo floors and weaves, coconut wood, hard wood, nipa roof, wire art, water bottle eco design with okil art. Books were donated by friends and guests of Enigmata.
Experience the energy of a century old Mother Acacia (MaA) which is built in the heart of the three-story multi-layered Enigmata Treehouse Ecolodge.
ART + POSITIVE ACTION – 50% CO2 EMISSION X LIFESTYLE CHANGE / TREES PLANTED = ECOLOGICAL FUTURE
Enigmata Vision
Abundant nurturing self-sufficient art space,
that create happy productive positive change
to the self, community, travellers and the environment.
Enigmata Mission
Make life productive with doable ecological solutions.
Art Education as Community Project
Make everything useful and beautiful.
Objectives of Art Education
- Create art products for self reliance and creative enterprise
- Create public space for culture of peace
- Facilitate people to people fair travel experience
- Open healing space for creative dialogues especially for women
- Play and imagine with the children based on eco-friendly principles
- Facilitate multi-cultural interaction between artists, local community, visitors and travelers
- Strengthen volunteerism of the global community
Photo by Ivan Sarenas
An artcamp and resource center, Enigmata documents life as our greatest work of art. In Camiguin a sacred playground was given birth as the TREE of LIFE where more than a hundred year old Acacia tree “MaA” gracefully stands in the center of the treehouse with original design by Ben Aicha. The volunteer resident artist and creative director, Rosalie shares the joy with the children of Camiguin in this magic sound art playground, Peace Library (with assistance from Imagine Peace) as we welcome visitors from all over the world.
“Enzemus” sculpture (facade of Treehouse front shot above) portrays the five elements of nature sprouting from the ground reaching for the sky. A banyan tree has now resided and embraced the sculpture as a living masterpiece.
Ros’ eco-design of recycled wine bottles surrounds the community space that creates a magical stained glass effect on sunrise.
Photo by Jo Wan Cheol
Nature’s Architect… Treehouse’s original structure was built by the benefactor, Ben Aicha, which is now extended and redesigned as home to a group of vibrant young artists called the Enigmata Creative Circle, a collective of volunteer artists. Enigmata artists assumes the creative process of extending this personal expression into a bigger community vision. The name Enigmata which means “open your eyes” was born out of friendship.Â
Photo by Ros
The captivating bronze-colored sculpture “Enigman” created by prolific sculptor Kublai Millan leads the way to the treehouse sculpture garden. Enigman is the expression of the Filipino culture bearer rooted from the roots, carrying the culture of remembrance that represents heritage and traditions.
The bio-glass wall remained to be a popular photography subject as a home-made recycled stained windows which brightens up with daylight from the inside. Bottles donated by Goldie the Swiss chef.
In one stop, Enigmata Treehouse, a cultural bank, is an art camp backpacker’s ecolodge and art gallery. Around it is a sculpture garden featuring some of the gravity defying outdoor sculpture works of Davao-based artist Kublai Millan.
A gallery of okil art carved on wood welcomes the visitors with a visual feast of Camiguin local functional house imbelishment decorative vernacular architecture found in ancestral houses. This replication is a post product of pre-world war II architectural research with Lawig Diwa experts.
Atop the treehouse ecolodge is the eagle’s nest suites, spiraling to the shell garden suites and descends to the backpacker’s dorm. Next to it is a sound playground converted-pool garden with a green canopy view deck that opens to a swing garden bamboo platform and peace library cafe area we baptized as “Balay Kalipay.”
Salima labyrinth walk welcomes the pilgrims to a sacred walk to the core of the “hand.” A sculpture of a dancer and a musician “the union” is like earth and sky, the duality that gives us back our wholeness and oneness. The walk inside the “Salima” or hands as the symbol of creativity, is a celebration of life. We express our thanks in this labyrinth walk as we bring people back to the “center”. It is a living vortex of dreams and visions. A basket of blessings within each one waiting to be unfolded and discovered.Â
The mouth of the moon garden leads you through concrete sculptures “taong tuko” gecko man and “taong bao” turtle man.  The gecko known for its reverence to the earth is likened to a tribal man rooted in his culture. The turtle man is the voice of the sea. We make sculptures as living statements of our visions.
We are the change we want to see happen in the universe.
A mosaic of bottle caps turns out to be the most photographed area. The peace library cafe started with books donated by Dita Sandico-Ong, Mr. Antonio Aboitiz, International School Manila through the efforts of Bec Gilman, Imagine Peace of South Korea, Peace Voyagers through Lei’Ohu Ryder, Enigmata Guests and artists.
