As stated in this piece is a french word dénonciateur which means a person who tells someone in authority about something illegal that is happening or one word to describe it is whistleblower. Reynold Dela Cruz brilliantly paints the head as to be a traditional kettle where it will whistle when the water is boiled so people will be alert ironically similar to a person who function as whistleblower as they act as an informer to alert people about a company / association / community / government.
A self-taught artist, Reynold gained attention when he won the Juror’s Choice in the Philip Morris Asean Art Awards final held in Vietnam in 1998 (Malaysia’s Kow Leong Kiang won the Grand Prize). He was also a Juror’s Choice in the Letray Figuras organised by the Instituto Cervantes in 1999, and a finalist in the GSIS national competition in 2009.