Art doesn’t have to be pretty but it must be true.
The Boysen KNOxOUT Project: EDSA mural by Tapio Snellman, Aurora Underpass, Quezon City.
No glowing sunsets. No rustic nipa huts and grazing carabao. No flowers in full technicolor bloom or children splashing about in amazingly unpolluted rivers or women carrying baskets of fruit. Just the chaos, the clangor and the rush of the city we hate and love in equal parts. THIS is the Metro Manila we live in. It may not be beautiful enough for you, but to us it’s home.
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Good to know that you like the mural by Jose Tence Ruiz on the San Lorenzo Wall. Here’s a composite.
June 6th, 2012 at 02:08
Am I the only fan of the sea creatures by Jose Tence Ruiz along EDSA – Magallanes station area? Anyone else? Because that’s the kind of unexpected beauty in nature that we rarely see pictured.
June 6th, 2012 at 20:06
@amypond: I like the sea creatures too! And the Tapio mural is my favorite part of the EDSA south-bound drive as well.