Jason K. Dy, SJ (b. 1977, Philippines) was artistically inclined from the time he was young, but it was only when he was in high school that he started to develop his talents by joining art contests, making liturgical designs for communal worship and following art workshops. His art blossomed fully when he joined the Jesuits, who encouraged him to attend art workshops, art classes and conferences, accept book projects (e.g. illustration and lay-out), create logos for institutions, visit exhibitions, participate in art groups and integrate art into his studies in theology. As a priest, he is now not only active in art production but also in art management and pastoral ministry for artists.Dy has explored various art forms such as drawing and illustration, graphic art, mixed media and collages, photography and digital art, so that he could employ various media to communicate his message. In this way his approach to art has always had a conceptual slant, which was reinforced even more by his philosophical and theological training. Only recently has he been seen as a conceptual artist in his country. Even though there is a strong conceptual tradition in the Philippines, he came to his own conceptual works through the influence of the social realist movement in his country to which most of his artist friends belong. Through them he learned about installation and community-based art. While there is a preference for figurative and realistic art among church people in the Philippines, his bottled memories art project has been well received. For more, see batikbatiknakariktan.blogspot.com.