A huge mural-sized photograph of lugaw, the poor man’s rice porridge, is splashed across the wall. Below it are a vintage table and two chairs. On top of the table and on either end of the two chairs facing each other are the obligatory metal spoons and forks framing the “plates,” which are actually chessboard-style illustrations of fish, bread and other food items.
Nearby, on another wall, hangs a framed drawing of lugaw; it is flanked by two chessboard drawings of food items. Below them are a table where there’s a familiar sign, “Magbigay ayon sa kakayahan, kumuha batay sa pangangailangan.”
The art installations—the first “Lugaw,” and the second “Community Pantry”—are amo…
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