Project Katutubong Pilipino

HOMELANDS

“Just in three words. Land is life. And so, because land is life, if it means the sacrifice of our lives, so be it.” 

Windel Bolinget, Bontok-Kankanaey

The love of one’s land begins when there are no words to shape its expression; no ideas to map what it can and can’t be. It is open-wide, enveloping, and unexplained: colours and sounds and feelings deeper for their darkness; vaster for their emptiness. Our relationship with land begins and ends with life itself, and whether we loftily reach for the universal in the abstract sense of “existence” or casually chalk our memories and impressions down to “experience,” no words or ideas, nor even our actions, can separate us from the fabric and flow of space and time. To be is to already belong. To live is to have landed—here, now, in the midst of everything else.

This atomic truth is known to the majority of modern humans, in theory, that is, in thought. We may even recognize this as “important,” even “urgent,” but there are those of us whose lives are so shaped by this primordial experience that they have institutionalized it in their culture, designed their days around it. To them, to have a relationship with the land is simply “normal”—there is nothing outside of it. For lack of a better word, or perhaps for lack of a greater awareness, we call them indigenous.

The love of one’s land begins when there are no words to shape its expression; no ideas to map what it can and can’t be. It is open-wide, enveloping, and unexplained: colours and sounds and feelings deeper for their darkness; vaster for their emptiness. Our relationship with land begins and ends with life itself, and whether we loftily reach for the universal in the abstract sense of “existence” or casually chalk our memories and impressions down to “experience,” no words or ideas, nor even our actions, can separate us from the fabric and flow of space and time. To be is to already belong. To live is to have landed—here, now, in the midst of everything else.

This atomic truth is known to the majority of modern humans, in theory, that is, in thought. We may even recognize this as “important,” even “urgent,” but there are those of us whose lives are so shaped by this primordial experience that they have institutionalized it in their culture, designed their days around it. To them, to have a relationship with the land is simply “normal”—there is nothing outside of it. For lack of a better word, or perhaps for lack of a greater awareness, we call them indigenous.

Project Katutubong Pilipino

HOMELANDS

Day One

Build an elegantly modern, responsive website that’s creative, accessible and beautifully presented. A well-designed website can change your conversion and a profit for good.

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Fusce aliquam tincidunt hendrerit. Nunc tincidunt id velit sit amet vestibulum. In venenatis tempus odio ut dictum. Curabitur ac nisl molestie, facilisis nibh ac, facilisis ligula. Integer congue malesuada eros congue varius. Sed malesuada dolor eget velit euismod pretium. Etiam porttitor finibus pretium. Nam suscipit vel ligula at dharetra.

Day Finale

Build an elegantly modern, responsive website that’s creative, accessible and beautifully presented. A well-designed website can change your conversion and a profit for good.

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Fusce aliquam tincidunt hendrerit. Nunc tincidunt id velit sit amet vestibulum. In venenatis tempus odio ut dictum. Curabitur ac nisl molestie, facilisis nibh ac, facilisis ligula. Integer congue malesuada eros congue varius. Sed malesuada dolor eget velit euismod pretium. Etiam porttitor finibus pretium. Nam suscipit vel ligula at dharetra.

Portfolio

When she reached the first hills

When, while the lovely valley teems with vapour around me, and the meridian sun strikes the upper surface of the impenetrable foliage of my trees.

Photography is an art

It’s about finding extra-ordinary

In an ordinary place

Fusce aliquam tincidunt hendrerit. Nunc tincidunt id velit sit amet vestibulum. In venenatis tempus odio ut dictum. Curabitur ac nisl molestie, facilisis nibh ac, facilisis ligula. Integer congue malesuada eros congue varius. Sed malesuada dolor eget velit euismod pretium. Etiam porttitor finibus pretium. Nam suscipit vel ligula at dharetra.

Day One

Build an elegantly modern, responsive website that’s creative, accessible and beautifully presented. A well-designed website can change your conversion and a profit for good.

Curabitur ac nisl molestie, facilisis nibh ac, facilisis ligula. Integer congue malesuada eros congue varius. Sed malesuada dolor eget velit euismod pretium. Etiam porttitor finibus pretium. Nam suscipit vel ligula at dharetra.

Fusce aliquam tincidunt hendrerit. Nunc tincidunt id velit sit amet vestibulum. In venenatis tempus odio ut dictum. Curabitur ac nisl molestie, facilisis nibh ac, facilisis ligula. Integer congue malesuada eros congue varius. Sed malesuada dolor eget velit euismod pretium. Etiam porttitor finibus pretium. Nam suscipit vel ligula at dharetra.

Day Finale

Build an elegantly modern, responsive website that’s creative, accessible and beautifully presented. A well-designed website can change your conversion and a profit for good.

Curabitur ac nisl molestie, facilisis nibh ac, facilisis ligula. Integer congue malesuada eros congue varius. Sed malesuada dolor eget velit euismod pretium. Etiam porttitor finibus pretium. Nam suscipit vel ligula at dharetra.

Fusce aliquam tincidunt hendrerit. Nunc tincidunt id velit sit amet vestibulum. In venenatis tempus odio ut dictum. Curabitur ac nisl molestie, facilisis nibh ac, facilisis ligula. Integer congue malesuada eros congue varius. Sed malesuada dolor eget velit euismod pretium. Etiam porttitor finibus pretium. Nam suscipit vel ligula at dharetra.

Portfolio

When she reached the first hills

When, while the lovely valley teems with vapour around me, and the meridian sun strikes the upper surface of the impenetrable foliage of my trees.

Photography is an art

It’s about finding extra-ordinary

In an ordinary place

Fusce aliquam tincidunt hendrerit. Nunc tincidunt id velit sit amet vestibulum. In venenatis tempus odio ut dictum. Curabitur ac nisl molestie, facilisis nibh ac, facilisis ligula. Integer congue malesuada eros congue varius. Sed malesuada dolor eget velit euismod pretium. Etiam porttitor finibus pretium. Nam suscipit vel ligula at dharetra.

Day One

Build an elegantly modern, responsive website that’s creative, accessible and beautifully presented. A well-designed website can change your conversion and a profit for good.

Curabitur ac nisl molestie, facilisis nibh ac, facilisis ligula. Integer congue malesuada eros congue varius. Sed malesuada dolor eget velit euismod pretium. Etiam porttitor finibus pretium. Nam suscipit vel ligula at dharetra.

Fusce aliquam tincidunt hendrerit. Nunc tincidunt id velit sit amet vestibulum. In venenatis tempus odio ut dictum. Curabitur ac nisl molestie, facilisis nibh ac, facilisis ligula. Integer congue malesuada eros congue varius. Sed malesuada dolor eget velit euismod pretium. Etiam porttitor finibus pretium. Nam suscipit vel ligula at dharetra.

Day Finale

Build an elegantly modern, responsive website that’s creative, accessible and beautifully presented. A well-designed website can change your conversion and a profit for good.

Curabitur ac nisl molestie, facilisis nibh ac, facilisis ligula. Integer congue malesuada eros congue varius. Sed malesuada dolor eget velit euismod pretium. Etiam porttitor finibus pretium. Nam suscipit vel ligula at dharetra.

Fusce aliquam tincidunt hendrerit. Nunc tincidunt id velit sit amet vestibulum. In venenatis tempus odio ut dictum. Curabitur ac nisl molestie, facilisis nibh ac, facilisis ligula. Integer congue malesuada eros congue varius. Sed malesuada dolor eget velit euismod pretium. Etiam porttitor finibus pretium. Nam suscipit vel ligula at dharetra.