Meet the creator of the viral ‘Kalsada Heroes’

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They look powerful together.”

That’s what Eman Jacob M. San Andres wrote when he shared three artworks from his “Kalsada Heroes” series on Twitter as @artenicojpg.

The series features Filipino street vendors reimagined as superheroes. His manong sorbetero is flinging ice cream with his metal scoop. His muscly magtataho is surrounded by a hail of silken tofu. His buko vendor grips his cleaver with a cuff-covered arm.

The 19-year-old multimedia arts freshman at Far Eastern University Institute of Technology kept adding to the series that people have also dubbed it “The Avendors.”

A long-haired magbabalut is throwing eggs in the air, his basket in tow. A sapin-sapin vend…

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