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The stairways positioned above the faceless man in a suit are a direct homage to Cesar Legaspi’s post-war masterpiece The Stairway—his visual lament for the devastation brought by World War II in the Philippines. Here, the faceless man becomes a mirror of the collective self—anonymous, lost, and still yearning for a grounded identity in a world that constantly redefines us.
Behind him stands a massive, cold cube, symbolizing our cultural comfort zone—sterile and imposing, yet oddly familiar. It embodies the habits, beliefs, and inherited systems we uncomfortably cling to, even when they no longer serve our growth. From this box, golden spikes—my symbol for Anastasis (resurrection or rising again)—begin to crawl out. They are the fragile truths and long-lost hopes trying to pierce through numbness and inertia.
The crowned woman, the only figure who engages with these spikes, swallows them as they emerge from a red rose—an emblem of unconditional love. She becomes both the vessel and the sacrifice—digesting truth and hope so they may once again become part of us.
Meanwhile, the figure with a vintage television for a head, featuring an all-seeing eye on its screen, reflects the ways we’ve been overtaken by cross-cultural confusion—a result of colonization’s lingering shadow. The TV represents passive consumption, while the eye is the symbol of omniscient observation—the one who sees through everything, even when we pretend not to.

