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Manila: Fever Dream

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Detail of CONSTANTINO ZICARELLI’s Dust of men (vertigo records sunset), 2023, sticker (originally graphite on paper). Courtesy the UP Vargas Museum, Metro Manila. “Fever​s​ ​are​​ our bod​ies’ biological defense against illness. ​They also serve as a metaphor for ​the ​calenture ​of​​ overwrought passion, ​the heat of the city, or the need to self-regulate and attune […]

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Manila: Buen Calubayan

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As we viewed the trees surrounding Vargas through these magnified blueprints, our eyes aligned and deconstructed the terrain against the diagrams’ perpendicular angles, vanishing point, and grid tracks, alluding to how we have been educated—according to Western art’s pillars—to view natural landscapes in a detached and scientific manner, while forfeiting our existence embedded within them.

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