Silent Witnesses
It has been more than 30 years since the fall of the Marcos regime. Time can dull memory, rendering it unreliable. Was it truly that bad? Did it even really happen? As time passes, revising history becomes easier, and the chances of history repeating itself are ever greater.
For this project, we read dozens of affidavits by survivors of atrocities committed by the Marcos regime and then distilled ten of them into three-sentence stories. The experience was traumatic and jarring, but the result was, to us, surprisingly meditative and timely.
Memory is an underrated but extremely important thing. We remember and learn from the past because we want our children to lead better lives than us.
