"May pag-asa" There is hope.
A Malaya Designs X Bayani Art Collaboration.
It’s not an easy task to promote cultural identity and takes a lot more effort than you might think. Collaborating with other artists makes it a bit easier.
I have and will always promote cultural identity through my work with Baybayin. It’s what I know best and what I’m best known for. It’s a legacy I can leave behind for my kids to keep them grounded to their roots.
As long as people continue to look to their roots, there will be folks like myself and Bayani Art reaching out to the community using their talents to propagate, promote and educate. I’ve dedicated many years writing these squiggly characters providing something tangible for people to identify with and hopefully an avenue for more discovery.
The next time you attend a Filipino Festival, I urge you to visit with local artists and vendors. See and understand what they have to offer and perhaps even support them. Artists put so much of themselves in their work, even a small gesture of conversation goes along way.
Ok, so I’ve been experimenting. Actually, I’ve experimented with this back in 1999 in Sacramento, Ca. at a Festival setting. There are actually pendants out there with this written on it. Thoughts of modernizing Baybayin (alibata) has swirled in my head for a long time as well as in the minds of countless Baybayin artisans and practitioners. I’ve never been adamantly opposed to modernizing it, I prefer to transliterate traditionally but I have become much more flexible as modifying the script has become more acceptable by the Baybayin community at large. What I am most opposed to is the ease of novices to overlook and ignore traditional Baybayin as their introduction to the script…then turn around and tell me I’m writing it incorrectly, AS IF!. As I mentioned in an earlier blog post, seen here 
