Filipino visual artist, architect, writer, and poet Sid Gomez Hildawa, 45, passed away Sunday night from a typhoid virus that led to multiple organ failure.

A mass will be held for him at the CCP Main Theater Lobby on April 3, Thursday, 4 p.m.

Hildawa was the director of the visual, literary, and media arts department of the Cultural Center of the Philippines. His works, Macho Motel (a play), and Building a House and Other Poems received the Palanca awards in 1997 and 2006, respectively. He was also a two-time recipient of the Philippine Free Press Literary Award for poetry.

Hildawa authored Regarding Space, published in 2005 by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts. He was also a CCP Thirteen Artists awardee.

Poet Jose Wendell Capili’s writes about Hildawa here.