An emergency response team member in a full-faced respirator. These are some of the masked faces painted on a once-drab wall in the busy corner of Ledesma and Jalandoni Streets in the city of Iloilo. These faces belong to the people hailed by the City of Love as modern-day heroes, worthy to be honored and immortalized through art.
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