Upon further researching on what to include in my series, I reflected on what else I miss about the Philippines and growing up I remembered the sari-sari shop in front of my house where we buy amenities and snacks as well as freshly cooked bread and a variety of pastries.

After much google searching I found the sari-sari store in my neighbourhood as well as the house I grew up in.

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For the project I want to build a sari-sari store set in the studio to replicate this colourful convenient store seen in streets of the Philippines.

As mentioned on my previous post, I wanted to explore the pre-colonial writing system, baybayin.

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Being fluent in Tagalog, one of the official languages of the Philippines along with English, learning and understanding baybayin was not a challenge. Though being able to write the letters itself took a while to master as seen above.

The reason for learning Baybayin is to represent and educate people about what Philippines was like during its pre-colonisation. I’ve looked at baybayin tattoos as I felt that this was the best way to include this throughout my series.