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On Saturday morning, July 17 at 10:58 a.m., illustrator
Tarantadong Kalbo posted across his social media pages a digital drawing of a clenched fist, standing alone in a sea of many others bowing down as if they were blindly worshipping someone.
Captioned T u m i n d i g with a clenched fist emoji, the piece was a way for Kevin Eric Raymundo, the brains behind Tarantadong Kalbo, to overcome the exhaustion he felt as an artist who is often a target of trolling online, death threats included, because of the politics behind his art.
As an artist who believed it s his responsibility to continue speaking up despite incessant attacks, he said it was beginning to feel like a lonely fight. So he decided to draw strength from the enduring spirit of activism, symbolized by a clenched fist, and come up with the piece which he hope would relieve his frustrations.
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Artista ng bayan, ngayon ay lumalaban!’
Resistance and protest can be done in many ways, but often the best and most effective medium is art. Paintings, songs, literature, and other forms of art have the ability to move people to stand up in solidarity in such a creative way that the movement is hard to leave unnoticed. That same thing is happening this week with just a simple illustration shared online by artist Tarantadong Kalbo, Kevin Eric Raymundo in real life.
‘Tumindig,’ digital art by Tarantadong Kalbo
His now viral work, titled “
Tumindig,” presents legions of fists bowing down except for one, which is glowing and standing up. While it wasn’t intended to be a campaign, activists, action leaders and groups, and fellow artists were quick to follow what he did and created their own versions of “