Wire Tuazon revisited the bizarre disappearance in the North Indian Ocean of Dutch Conceptual-performance artist Bastiaan Johan Christiaan ‘Bas Jan’ Ader (1942-1975) as a reverse tribute in this work with his portrait emblazoned over the whole canvas and the shadow of his small sailing craft, Guppy 13, cast over it. Some speculated that his last act, In Search of the Miraculous, was a staged suicide and not a sailing misadventure. The ‘Man of Sorrow’ epithet refers to another work of his with the message to friends, ‘I’m Too Sad To Tell You.’ Notice the arrow rending the work. Wire Tuazon works on a bandwidth between the hyperrealist and the performative with recourse to semiotics. He graduated from the Fine Arts Univeristy of the Philippines in 1999, majoring in Painting, and in 2003 was one of 13 young artists awarded by the Cultural Centre of the Philippines. He has an independently run space in Angono and later in Quezon city. He is married to Keiye Miranda, the artist-daughter of famous Angono folk painter and sculptor Nemiranda. He is also the founding member of the art collective, Surrounded by Water, which was active from 1998 to 2004.