STRANGELY TOGETHER
It was a year of gatherings. Not only mass civic gatherings—in parks, in squares, in the streets—but a year when occasions of people coming together took on renewed significance, as it becomes increasingly difficult for many to cross borders, or even to cross town.
Earlier in the year, the word “gathering” had been on my mind because it is the title of a book of essays by Marian Pastor Roces co-published by the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design in Manila with
