Drawing is political. No illustration is done in a vacuum. If poetry is emotion recollected in tranquility, two members of the band Kapitan Kulam reflect on six absurdly grotesque years in a mess of blacks and reds.
Olavides and De Veyra come together not to harmonize, but to collide. Like guitar riffage, these drawings are dialogues centering on a recent past that hardly made sense, a gristly response to a vulgarity and violence so surreal. But that has been our reality, and this is their retort.
Laughter is the only armor left. What is left to be done when the world has become a bad B-movie on constant replay? It’s been said that gallows humor is part of the Pinoy’s a survival mechanism. If systematic disinformation is among the worst modern forms of violence, here is the timeless exclamation point in the universal language: the middle finger.
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Works
Ang Mata At Ang Nakahandusay
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