Maki School Blog

  “Ang kalayaan ay ang magkaroon ng kaligayahang nais mo kaysa sa kaligayahang sinabi ng lipunan na gusto mo.”   Habang sinusulat ko ang sanaysay na ito, hindi lamang ako nakatayo bilang isa sa mga kabataan ngunit din bilang isang babae sa lipunan ngayon. Sa loob ng maraming daang siglo, ang mga kababaihan ay nakikita lamang bilang mga bagay ng pagnanasa, mga tropeong mananalo, at syempre, bilang property . Sa nakaraan, kung ang isang babae ay magsasalita ng kanyang opinyon o gumawa ng isang bagay na isasaalang-alang sa itaas ng kanyang antas ng talino, siya ay akusahan ng pangkukulam at maparusahan nang husto dahil dito. Sa katunayan, kahit na nagsimula ang panahon ng black and white telebisyon, ang mga kababaihan ay hindi pinapayagan na bumoto tungkol sa pinaniniwalaan na hindi sila sapat na matalino o sapat na lohikal upang pumili ng isang pampulitikang lider. Kung napakahirap na maging isang babae ng nakaraan, ano pa kapag ikaw ay isang woman of color ? Ang kasa...

  “Who Will Save You from Disaster?”   The National Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council (NDRRMC) is a Philippine national group of various government, non-government, civil sector and private sector organizations of the Government of the Republic of the Philippines that is responsible for ensuring the protection and welfare of the people during disasters or emergencies. The NDRRMC plans and leads the guiding activities in the field of communication, warning signals, emergency, transportation, evacuation, rescue, engineering, health and rehabilitation, public education and auxiliary services such as firefighting and the police in the country. Basically, the NDRRMC is responsible for keeping natural and unnatural disasters and calamities in check while protecting the citizens of our beloved country. Many people would say that perhaps the NDRRMC isn’t doing their job quiet well considering the number of casualties that happen every single day in the Philippines. Not to...

The artwork that we were tasked to create today was meant to be inspired by the Surrealistic art movement.  The concept for the piece I made was originally nothing but a whim out of my perverse mind. I'm kidding, that's kinda edgy. Though the piece was originally a meaningless image in my head, it gained meaning the more I refined it. Of course, I did all of that in my mind as well.  Using my reoccurring concept of "old man inside an egg" I made a piece that I believe voices out an issue in our world--that, though I'd like to say today-- has been a constant and normalized topic. The subject is an old woman crawling into an empty egg. The woman's skin is sagging and cracked, her body frail and weakened by the tocs of time, her face crumpled into a nearly toothless wail. Her legs are dragged across the floor, as if she has lost the ability to walk. Her hands are outstretched toward the eggshells. The old woman symbolizes the women's fear of age. An aging wom...