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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