VoV + PSP XIX | Stickers & Illustrate

The Pilipinas Street Plan (PSP) is a collection of talented artists, designers, and visual creatives that was formed nineteen years ago. The group is more known for its street culture through their artistic mural creations, redefining the term “Street Art” and not just some random, tasteless vandalism that the masses overlook in their work. PSP changes the way you look at graffiti as a way not just to express their views on life, culture, and politics. Some members create their own stories that define what led them to become artists. There are storytellers too, they push their artistry to redefine that organized vandalism can be works of art that others would be inspired to create their own narrative and introduce the grassroots of Filipino Culture.

Street Art Exposition | Requiem for a Mural

Whenever street art or a mural is discovered it brings such curiosity and sometimes a bit of inspiration from most people who never have had any association with the world or art. Personally, not everyone can draw and create things out of random objects to produce a masterpiece for some would call it “junk” because not everyone has the same taste in art as to its views and opinion. Street art nowadays is acknowledged and respected for its creation. You can find one or randomly discover it unexpectedly. It depends on who’s looking and has an affinity or respect for what is “art” and what is not. For all things, everything is art it all depends on your taste or preference and never judge or discriminate as they are created equal.

Urban Visual Art | Legaspi Underpass

Art defines what you want it to be and sometimes it adds vibrant colours or life to a mundane location. This has become part of urban renewal in some major cities in the world and Makati, the Philippines business district has tapped local talents to redefine that perspective through their craft as an artist in ‘adding colour’ to the city. This has become part of the urban culture since Makati City made changes and improvements through their elevated walkways and underpasses by adding art in giving some vibrancy in a heavy urban area that also promotes it as one of the well-known cities from around world. Of course, art is here to stay and it happened again.

PLDT-SmART Project | Nature Guide Mural

A street art or a Mural that is painted in the confines of the public is purely underappreciated let alone in one of the major cities in the Philippines. There’s a story somewhere to share and in one of those tales is one particular scene in 2013 when six of the well-known visual artists were tapped to paint the Legazpi Underpass, it is one of the oldest passage ways in Makati City built in the mid-1990s. During its time media did coverage of the almost finished murals under it and had interviewed random people passing through this subterranean walkway and one of them was this elder lady saying that she appreciates the art, but would it be best it would be easily seen visibly like her. Understanding that she’s one of the local folks who just take the common route which is a bit shame not really getting the concept.

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.

PSP X | More Than An Art Community

07.03.2016 – There are varying degrees of art but nothing like the expressive mantra of Graffiti or Street Art whatever you call it. There’s nothing like a creating expression created on a blank wall that has become a canvass for everyone to see. If you haven’t heard about the Pilipinas Street Plan, then you must have been stuck under the rock indulging on your noon time shows, nightly telenovelas, and the occasional corny joke on your favorite radio station to ever see what they’ve done. This year marks their tenth anniversary and they’ve grown beyond as a community.