'Philippine Heritage Collection' of Dubai-based artist unveiled

The past is taking place at the Philippine Consulate General in Dubai, particularly in Al Qusais, where excavations, according to records, have traces to the Bronze and Iron Age.

- Mariecar Jara-Puyod, Senior Reporter

Consider these: The thoroughfare of Magallanes in the “Queen City of the South” of the Philippines which is Cebu Province in Central Visayas. The Philippines’ “Wall Street of Asia,” Escolta, which, despite the blitzkreig for the Liberation of War I - buildings, constructed to magnificently display the wealth gained during the 1500 to 1800 Manila-Acapulco Galleon Trade, remain. Binondo, the world’s oldest Chinatown, a witness to the rise of the 20th century Chinoy billionaires, away from the condescension their migrant ancestors went through, particularly during the Spanish Era when they were derogatorily labelled as the Sangleys.

A total of 15, these are the “Philippine Heritage Collection” of Cebu-born Dubai resident Edcel Cabalan, whose silently-creeping latent talent in watercolouring that elementary art orientation schoolchildren learn to enjoy and embrace - yet arduous enough to be an expert on - was recently inaugurated.