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Who is the ruling class? Are we part of the ruling class? If we are reading this, we cannot be poor. Or at least not as poor as those who cannot read or cannot be reading this.…
I am watching clothes tumbling in the machines at the laundromat. I can see the clothes because the washing machines have half globular windows through which one might gaze at the whole process. The purist functionalist designer…
More than a decade ago, a friend and co-teacher who recently returned from a PhD program in UP Diliman told me, “Everything is text.” I was quite incredulous. I have been a visual artist for as long…
Honpanaligidli,” is a word my father taught me. Venancio J. Fernandez pointed to me the word as a cautionary signifier for those in power. Otherwise, the word is a curse uttered under one’s breathe at one’s oppressors.…
Young people teach me about gaming the system. That it’s all about understanding how the system works; finding out the intricacy of its rules, its architecture; and once having understood these, knowing how to use this to…
The student was doing bas relief with clay of her cat sitting on a tree branch though we could not quite make out the tree branch for the fact it was just two diagonal lines in space.…
Last Sunday I was fortunate enough to listen to a strongly worded statement from the Redemptorists condemning the spate of killings resulting from the “War on Drugs,” and how it has become a war against the poor.…
We have to wonder how we brought ourselves — or how we were brought — to this dark and dangerous place. Who herded us here? It was not too long ago when the choice was ours to…
Were I asked what ability should an artist or writer have above everything else, my immediate answer would not have much to do with style and technique. My answer would be that the artist or writer should…
I wanted to write one about the beauty of uncertainty. But almost immediately and as soon as I thought of it, I felt the need to warn myself against making frivolous such a topic as has such…
She came to me like the concept of God. She was already there came the time for me to wake up to the world, or discover the concept of I. She was already there from as long…
From time to time, I wonder if I have done enough to take care of friends. A friend once wisely advised: Above everything else, take care of family and friends. After everything, they are all you really…
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