Can't help seeing Walking in the Philippine context as anything other than a political act, seeing the few markers in our history where the act of walking figured in: the annual Mendiola pilgimage, the Edsa People Power Revolution, the Bataan Death March, Rizal strolling from dank cell to firing squad in the midday heat.
Now if at all, walking is commuting from house to office place to the carinderia for lunch to back to the office and then back home; walking is strolling through malls windowshopping past storefronts if not farmers walking from the countrysides to Mendiola only to be hosed down and bullied, in memoriam of other farmers who'd been gunned down on the spot only a couple of decades ago.
Monday, February 4, 2013
Sunday, September 30, 2012
cubao // 09292012
How long does a place take to introduce itself to strangers?
How long does it take for a stranger to be familiar with the place?
They say Cubao is a place of transit, not a destination. Daily, aliens arrive and depart. The place is not the destination, but the journey for these strangers.
How long does it take for stranger to make a place familiar?
How long does it take for a stranger to be familiar with the place?
They say Cubao is a place of transit, not a destination. Daily, aliens arrive and depart. The place is not the destination, but the journey for these strangers.
How long does it take for stranger to make a place familiar?
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