Think before you wave that palm leaf
Christians worldwide began to observe Holy Week on Sunday with the celebration of Palm Sunday, the remembrance of Christ’s triumphant entry into Jerusalem before His suffering and death almost 2,000 years ago.
Christians worldwide began to observe Holy Week on Sunday with the celebration of Palm Sunday, the remembrance of Christ’s triumphant entry into Jerusalem before His suffering and death almost 2,000 years ago.
For this year’s annual exhibit of student works, Slim’s students explored what could make them truly Filipino designers—and tapped into everything from history, culture and literature to ordinary things like local food and flowers.
For most of us, palaspas is an ordinary adornment made of palm fronds used during Palm Sunday, but what we do not know is that such an ordinary adornment is an intricate weaving of a way of life, an indigenous aesthetics and even a philosophy. Elmer Nocheseda, in his book “Palaspas: An Appreciation of Palm Leaf Art in the Philippines,” talks about palaspas that has figured in our early history and culture, in various religious, social and economic practices all over the country.
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