Street Art Exposition | Graffiti Art at Chino Roces

Graffiti art is slowly getting accepted to society in the Philippines as another form of expression. But there are still graffiti that is considered vandalism such as an unfocused and random destruction of another art piece. If you’re not the usual commuter who takes a jeepney, trike, or even a bus chances are you won’t notice it. Whenever I’m about to take a commute to somewhere I’m always paying attention to my surroundings like what I used to do back in Adelaide and there’s something new that I might discover that I have not seen in the previous days. Last Thursday was just a random day and just across the street there used to be one graffiti art but they added two more artworks that I called the ‘Mikez Wall’ a tribute to a friend who passed on.

Mikez Ancheta Tribute | This is Your Wall

12.18.2019 – I’ve met so many good people in the past through the toy collecting community. Some of them has grown and moved on and then there are some left this plain too soon. I used to be part of the Action Figure Philippines (AFP) forums before Facebook took over the social media mainstream. When you talk about AFP there’s Don Razon, who passed away in 2016 and then there’s Mikez Ancheta. Both men are close friends and shared bonding time when Don was traveling back and forth from Melbourne to Manila whenever he can up until his passing sometime in October three years ago and now Mikez follows him…