Escape from the office
It’s Tuesday, and we’re already planning to flee!
If you work in Makati and you want to escape from the office for a couple of hours, but you don’t want to go to the mall where you will run into all your colleagues escaping from work, I suggest a short trip to the galleries of Pasong Tamo Extension.
Last month SLab featured the work of Alfredo Esquillo.
If my apartment were big enough, I’d buy this. Note the hood ornament.
Next door at Manila Contemporary, Alwin Reamillo and Juliet Lea were setting up their joint exhibit, Clouds and Wings.
There are a lot of pianos and piano parts in Alwin’s work. He explained that for four decades his family manufactured Wittemberg pianos locally. In the late 90s NAFTA killed local manufacturing, and today no more pianos are manufactured in the Philippines.
While you mull over the tangled relationship of art and economics, you can have merienda at Terry’s (Tawilis deep-fried in chorizo fat! Tocino de cielo, excuse me, tothino de thielo!), Cantinetta (Pasta with truffle oil, which technically hasn’t got truffle in it, but is delicious anyway), or Kitchen’s Best (where Starbucks used to be) where you can have
a slice of rich, gooey chocolate cake for only P80, and a good cup of coffee (or a glass of cold milk).
Start inching towards the exit.
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