Saturday, full-ish moon
Saturday night we went to Art in the Park at Salcedo Village, Makati.
It’s the annual art fair where everything goes for under Php20,000.
The perfect present for your friends who smoke:
Skull ashtrays by Leroy Neeuw.
I ran into Lyn my classmate from high school. She had the best hair accessory.
And I finally met Ann Wizer, founder of Invisible Institute, the group that trains women from urban poor communities to recycle used dry cleaner and plastic bags, hard drives, mother boards, cassette and video tapes and computer wires into bags, wallets, shawls, vests and other fashion accessories.
Garbage is fashion. Ann says if you have old audio and video cassettes to dispose of, send them over; the Invisible Sisters will crochet them into pretty things. For more information visit www.invisiblesisters.org or email invisible.institute@yahoo.com.
The fair featured food and beverage booths and live music. A band did Girl From Ipanema like this: “Small and tan and young and lovely/The girl from Metro Manila goes walking. . .” “And we all know at least one!” the vocalist pointed out. Wow, improv. We fled screaming to the brasserie at Picasso Suites with our purchases.
Noel bought this artwork by a UST Fine Arts student. “They said the original price was Php2,000 but they were bringing it down to Php1,500. I said, Php1,000 and they agreed. I should’ve said Php500!” That’s why I never haggle—I can’t stop thinking that I could’ve gotten it for less.
I bought this troll ring from Resurrection for Php400. I did not bargain it down. (Yeah I could’ve made it myself but shopping is fun. Yes I have the hands of a 5-year-old.)
Art in the Park will be back next year.
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February 23rd, 2011 at 14:52
I am bothered by the organization’s name “Invisible Sisters.” Reminds me of the Silent Sisters, the creepy bad guys in The Order of Odd-fish, a wonderfully hilarious and odd novel by James Kennedy. The Silent Sisters were said to have maintained their vow of silence for centuries deep in the earth that the earth began to whisper its secrets to them. Also reminds me of the Gray Sisters/the Graeae from Greek mythology.