Original visual reference is of a photo I took after the Marawi siege of a building ridden with bullet holes and broken glass, particularly within its square windows.

And found absurdity in our practice of using labor to put up structures and then actively destroying them through the machinery of war.

Meanwhile, in Metro Manila, workers precariously hang off high-rise buildings draped with construction net--used also as a means to trick the mind, as a psychological barrier that there is nothing to fear... even when your life, and your capability to put food on the table, is hanging by a thread.

Violence is a circle that runs on an empty stomach
Construction net, 
ceramic plate.
2023.


View from the Top
Construction net, ceramic plate, acrylic sheet, single channel projection mapping. 
2023.


“ Division of Labor ”
Kalawakan Spacetime, Quezon City
5 May  - 2 June 2023

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