After sketching at the Gomburza monument last Saturday with #UskManila we went into Binondo to watch the Lunar New Year celebrations. There was supposed to be some kind of photo-walk starting at the junction of Escolta Street and Jones bridge, so we hung out there for a while and I did this sketch standing in the crowd. The Jones Bridge was most recently restored in 2019 (the first version was built in 1919) and four statues collectively called La Madre Filipina (the Philippine Motherland) guard it, representing different aspects of nationhood (gratitude, democracy, progress and justice). According to Google maps the one I sketched is “progress”.
Sat-10-Feb-2024
Good work for someone standing in a crowd sketching. It certainly stretches your abilities.
It does. I much prefer to sit!
Dont we all … and without a crowd milling around