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Thursday, January 9, 2014

FOURTEEN HENCE

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Wednesday, January 1, 2014

WALLED OUT WORLD (PART I)

Walls. The Famous Walls.  It represents the separation of two sides. The most perfect way to form divisions. It is as it is, and evidently is, a somewhat necessary building structural part or component for the regular Filipino residential community.

We call them firewalls, pader, fences, and bakod or bakuran.  We treat them as a declaration of the extent of our property.  Something that buffers us from the environment that isn't ours technically or legally.  The kind of thing that shields us from the outside environment's responsibility.  It gives us an illusion of seclusion or isolation.  The usual four corner lot, with landmarks (muhon) on each endpoint.  To claim ownership, property validation, and proof of wealth.  The lot.

So it is perhaps easy to point out which household have it hard and easy, whichever how you perceive them.  From the lowest bamboo fences,  to the highest, thickest walls and firewalls, it shows.  It shows the most secretive and the most open.  The walls reflect the household's if not the whole community's character.   It brings a message to the passer-by, its neighbors and its eventual visitors. 

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