“Balete” is inspired by summer trips to my home town where we pass by vast rice

“Balete” is inspired by summer trips to my home town where we pass by vast rice fields and communication towers along the way. I imagine what could be seen from the road towards the horizon. Initially, I saw a spacecraft landing port but it felt too scifi. I wanted something eerie and supernatural and then I saw a colossal ancient balete grove…and a former dweller who had moved to the city, visits her “home." 

Balete trees are both feared and revered by native Filipinos, believing that they are dwellings of nature and ancestral spirits.

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