“The People Power represented how he felt and how the whole country felt at the time,” shares the late artist’s daughter Ovvia Castrillo. In 1972, he was invited to have a show in the US and was asked to stay and create there. In the milleu of Martial Law, he decided as a nationalist to stay in the country and make statements. It was a hush-hush project, his children reveal, as someone approached him to stop the project, as it might incite people’s feelings at the time. It is similar to Bonifacio’s monument, but even bigger in scale and even more intricate, with materials such as metal and mosaic tiles.

Source: Manila Times August 20, 2016 11:03 UTC