They are the passages between one street to another; the shadowed lands of the concrete jungle; where darkness hides while the sun plays, until the stars drag the blanket of the night sky over the city. All the while, life and death sporadically skips, softly and secretly within. The alley.
Baybayin (aka Alibata) is an ancient script used by the native Filipinos, pre-dating Spanish Colonization. The Bathala Project utilizes this bold rhetoric in its artwork in an effort to proliferate the cultural knowledge and significance of this dead script... Among other things.
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