text: I’ve lived in Katipunan for over 12 years and I have seen it take radical changes. I was there before the LRT existed, before the underpass to Eastwood existed, before they cut down all the trees along Katipunan to make the road wider, before the church in Ateneo was erected, before the sports complex beside the High School buildings in Ateneo was erected, before Rustan’s grocery store existed, before when Mc Donalds still closed at 2AM and opened at 5:30-6:00AM, before when Red Ribbon and Max’s Chicken was still going strong, before Jollibee existed (they bought the lot of Red Ribbon and Max’s), before when we had to go to mass at the basketball court, before when Tapa King still existed, before when Kenny Roger’s and Seattle’s Best looked like crap, before when Kublai Khan (Mongolian resto) was still there then we go there after mass, before when the U-Turn slots along Katipunan were intersections (imagine the traffic!), before when Ken Afford (a restaurant) was at that shady building; where I also use to get my haircut from Banjo’s barber shop and go to this Internet café for LAN games and in that same building there was a Dunkin’ Donuts and a travel agency (betcha didn’t know that).
  There are plenty more things that changed in Katipunan, and we all know that some things must end for something new to begin. But what SMDC and SM Corp. is doing is totally against our law! Our law states that “there must be no high-rise buildings” in Katipunan. But no, SM Corp. will never give a shit about what we think, as long as they can bribe the government, they can do anything they want.
  If you know the empty lot in front of the LOTTO store, it’s apparently been bought by SM Corp. as well, or so I heard.
  Vulnerable – we feel vulnerable, God, and we are not used to feeling vulnerable. We are Americans. It is hard to remember that Jesus did not come to make us safe, but rather he came to make us disciples, people of your new age, citizens of your kingdom. We are Christians. What are we to […]
  One of the more arresting yet disconcerting encounters in the life of Jesus is recorded in Mark 5, when He meets a man terrorized by demons. According to the text, this was a man who “lived among the tombs” (verse 3). Despite multiple attempts to restrain him, not even the chains were able to control […]
  Signs No. 1 & 2 (2016) are digital graphic designs appropriating symbols found in graffiti. Inspired by images from another project, Poet Fool (2016), a collection of imprints in public spaces, the work functions as a survey of signifiers revealing preoccupations in contemporary life, from politics and money to sex and technology.
  These images represent ongoing transnational conversations depicted in raw graffiti, fragments of stories and ideas hinting at an array of human experiences from different points of view, ranging from benign to problematic.
  The work originates from high resolution digital files and can be exhibited in various forms and scales, including archival pigment prints on cotton rags (A3-A0), duratrans on light boxes, vinyl prints, poster prints, PVC banners or billboards.
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