The rural idyll painted by Amorsolo, not too different in lighting and composition from the urban reality I photographed recently.
It is the same scene really, just about fifty years apart. The former largely existing in the painter's imagination, the latter exists at Pier 18 in Manila's North Harbor.The cycle of poverty and overpopulation breeds robustly in the PH. The Reproductive Health Bill that is trying to get passed in Congress is very much needed (a baseline thought of the everyday while navigating through the jeeps, tricycles, bicycles, vendors, pedestrians that make up the trauma of driving here).
The last few days have been heaven- barely any cars on the road, ten minutes to Sucat from Makati, ten minutes to anywhere from Makati. Plus, JOY to find that the squatters homes along the riles on the Bicutan stretch of hi-way were gone.
I don't even want to ask where they went, but I wish them well wherever they are so they never come back. If I were president, I would make visas mandatory for people from the provinces to travel to Metro Manila; and I would only allow tax payers to vote. Which is why I would never get elected into office. Did you know that the top 3 reasons people come to Manila from the provinces (in this order):
1. to go to a mall
2. to see artistas
3. to find a job
Anybody else interested in the Visa idea?
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